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@beecycling A hobby is, by and large, a pastime with jargon that preserves a vigorous industry of baffling suppliers. Given that booksellers aren't at all baffling, it follows that reading is no more a hobby than looking at pictures or listening to music. We read to pique, and sometimes satisfy, our curiosity and it comes as naturally as picking our noses or poking wasps' nests with sticks, neither of which count as hobbies either (nor, for that matter, as exercise).