They say that it's better to read anything rather than nothing. It's an age-old sentiment and the soft illiterate modern people tend to agree with it. An average person reads 300-1000 books in their lifetime while serious bookworm skims through 3000-6000. These are rough estimates of course but they do paint a picture of a life that's surprisingly short.
Entertainment sells and as most entertainment is rubbish = rubbish sells. And people truly read this rubbish about the crime that has been solved in thousands of times, about the romance of homosexual hockey players or a biography of an influencer who goes out of fashion the very next day. This was of course an exaggeration but I mean all the books that offer some mindless entertainment like a stupid movie, and is then forgotten. Remember, no one can stop you from doing this to yourself, so feel free to keep consuming with all your might, but your pages are limited.
I read a lot but I'm also a slow reader. This means that reading a book takes more time than I would like, and wasting time with a bad or low quality book is out of the question. Some fools say that they read through what they've started, and I find it silly that there are such masochists in the booksphere. Why wouldn't you want to read only good and interesting books? In fear of missing out on the bad ones?
Every time you're reading a bad or boring book, you could be reading a good one, imagine that. Books aren't some holy relics (not even those) that deserve a special treatment, respect and kind words, you either like them or you don't. Sometimes you are sort of forced to read dry and uninteresting books in order to learn something that hasn't yet been written in more engaging fashion, but such is life.
What if you were among the slowest readers and one of your 300 lifetime books was Trump: The Art of the Deal? That would be a nightmare for anyone with a brain.
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