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theadvancedapes  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you currently avoiding, Hubski?

    What are you dreading?

The next Miley Cyrus video.

    What do you want to avoid under all circumstances?

Robot enslavement.

    What are you currently avoiding?

Ok, serious time. I'm avoiding writing a book. It's hard! But I want to do it! But it's hard! But people don't even read books anymore! But I still want to do it!





user-inactivated  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I will of course both buy and read your book, should you ever write one.

pseydtonne  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People read a lot of books these days! They just won't pay for them.

theadvancedapes  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ya, people do read books (and you're right they are paying for them less). But books also have a lot of competition now from other mediums that didn't exist (or weren't that widely dispersed/abundant) not that long ago. There are a lot of people who just read online blogs, articles etc. now. People want information fast - and are adjusting to a world in which information comes at them fast from a lot of different sources. Just sitting down and reading a book? That is becoming less common - and that trend should continue.