1 hour ago, TheVelvetRope said:

Only those who read while they stand in public transport 'cause all the seats are taken. Like, girl, it can't be THAT good what you're reading. Also, if you read in public without wearing noise-cancelling headphones or having your lips or face move in some way, are you even reading?

You mean things you stop doing once you learn to read fluently?

Edited August 24Aug 24 by Haze

If you can't read just say it

We've lost the plot

This kind of thinking is why everyone in Gen Z is embarrassed to exist and be perceived doing anything but being a grey iPhone blob

Edited August 24Aug 24 by Orsay

It's only performative if you're hot

Real readers don't take their soft copies out while walking, travelling and eating in public places where they could be damaged. I'd be paranoid the whole time and instead prefer e-readers or audiobooks during hectic journeys

2 hours ago, Haze said:

You mean things you stop doing once you learn to read fluently?

If what you're reading is THAT good that you have to read it in public too, there's no way you're reading it completely poker-faced and not show any emotion .

25 minutes ago, KnightOfAllRealms said:

Real readers don't take their soft copies out while walking, travelling and eating in public places where they could be damaged. I'd be paranoid the whole time and instead prefer e-readers or audiobooks during hectic journeys

What? Idk about you or some others but I like carrying some of my books, reading when I'm traveling or going vacations. It's relaxing and it's also way better than doom scrolling my phone to kill time.

2 minutes ago, Odette Violet said:

What? Idk about you or some others but I like carrying some of my books, reading when I'm traveling or going vacations. It's relaxing and it's also way better than doom scrolling my phone to kill time.

Exactly.

e-books suck and audiobooks is not reading, it is listening to a podcast.

everyone in here dragging op pretty sure he's referencing the "performative male" aesthetic that grew in popularity last year. with that said it's annoying how the most benign activities such as reading a book on public transport is seen as inauthentic to some people

I don't leave my house without a book. I'm 28 and I have been doing that since I was at least 10. Some people just like to read

you guys really are gaycels damn

If rather see someone read an ereader or a book than scrolling tiktok and rotting their brain, performative or not.

I'm chronically online enough to remember the original time this exact topic was threaded

Anyway I think more people should be reading in public. I think it's actually really healthy to encourage people to default to reading a couple of pages of a book when they're waiting for a train or something, rather than defaulting to scrolling through their phone like most of us do. I wanna start bringing a book with me more often

everything you do in public with strangers around is performative

Edited August 24Aug 24 by truthteller

The only people who think this are illiterates who learned the word "performative" like two years ago and look for any opportunity to shoehorn it into a conversation. Maybe if they read a few books they'd know more than one multi-syllabic word.

3 hours ago, KnightOfAllRealms said:

Real readers don't take their soft copies out while walking, travelling and eating in public places where they could be damaged. I'd be paranoid the whole time and instead prefer e-readers or audiobooks during hectic journeys

Real readers love having books that actually show they've been read and weren't just bought to sit on a shelf and never be opened.

Shaming people for reading in this day and age it's not a cute look considering how dumb everyone's getting

People who read on public transport in London are definitely into their reading you can clearly see it it's not performative

Because God forbid a ***** wants to read.

Reading while you walk is a bit performative, you can't barely pay attention to the street and be focus reading. But waiting a bus/subway or while riding the subway is totally normal, or while eating something.

Back a few years I had to wait around 30min for the bus to go home from work, and the bus ride was another 30 min, so I would often read something to pass the time.

This just might be the saddest thread ever posted on ATRL dot net.