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Adele Walton: ‘The rise of book content has come with an intensifying sense of competitiveness’ to forums, dinner table discussions to online communities, sharing what’s on our reading lists has long made what is primarily a solitary activity into a shared pleasure. We wear our literary tastes like badges of honour, delving into meaningful conversation about plot and intention, comparing notes and broadening our understanding in the process.
I began posting a lot more book content during the huge boom in #BookTok and #Bookstagram communities when the pandemic hit. As a university student who suddenly had an abundance of time to readbeyond my course reading list, I loved how the trend offered bookworms a digital home.
Habiba , a Bookstagrammer and journalist, meanwhile, found that book communities online can create unrealistic expectations, even for lifelong readers. She told me: “It wasn’t until I joined BookTok that I felt the pressure to read for the sake of it. When I found out people were reading 100 books per year I was floored because the most I’ve read a year is 35. However, I always remind myself that reading isn’t a competition.”In a study of “conspicuous busyness,” i.e.
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