[allknowingfrog]

Do what makes you happy, but don't pretend that reading "difficult" books makes you morally-superior to the rest of us. I read fiction for fun, and non-fiction for personal growth.

[hearsathought]

> I read fiction for fun, and non-fiction for personal growth.

You could read fiction for personal growth and non-fiction for fun as well.

[mc3301]

This is mostly how I do it.

[stonemetal12]

Some people find Dark Souls style games fun, I assume this is the book reader's version of that. I don't get it, but whatever floats their boat.

[viccis]

There's always that person who needs to make a knee-jerk inferiority feeling into the author's problem. The author never made value judgments about people. In fact, he starts by pointing out that he thinks those kinds of judgments either way are silly.

[allknowingfrog]

The first paragraph labels me a "social media poster who identifies as a reader", based on my reading preferences.

[gitarre]

For sure; engaging in any particular difficult hobby (be it reading hard books, lifting heavy weights, or playing an instrument extremely well) is unrelated to how moral a person is.

[aklemm]

I’ll do as I like.