Post #2129627
2026-05-04 22:02 UTC
I've been reading a lot recently. Possibly the more consistently I've ever read in my life. Mostly philosophy.
Now I've been using Storigraph to keep track of my books and it's cool.
But since I've built such a momentum and I'm following my own sort of personal "research", I can't help but seeing how all this reading apps are built around a gamification of reading to see the number going up. And I'm not sure it's very helpful...
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#reading #books
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@mauro@mograph.social 2026-05-04 22:04
That's just not the point of reading at all, I think. I'd rather do deep reading and jump around to my own interests, not finishing books, only read certain part of certain books. Also there are some books that are just not meant to be read from start to finish, like books of aphorisms, or more "reference" books like history books. Everybody does whatever they want obviously, but I've just grew tired of the sort of mental model that these apps are built around, I don't find it useful. 2/2