[benj111]

So. Assuming we are talking about non fiction. Why would you read a book that you don't really expect to learn anything new from?

Further, your supposed use case of audio books is when you're driving, when most of your attention should be spent... Driving.

As for fiction, efficiency totally misses the point. Efficiency isn't reading Harry potter as fast as possible. Efficiency is not reading it at all.

My most charitable interpretation is that we just have different aims when it comes to consuming literature, but that still leads back to the ops point that this is basically the gamification of book reading.

[throwanem]

> Why would you read a book that you don't really expect to learn anything new from?

Entertainment! A sufficiently wrongheaded idea advanced at length and with a measure of braggadocio can be funny as anything. Startup-culture biens-pensants are often good for this, I find.

That said, in the general case you're not wrong, and it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Goodhart's law that the gamification of reading produces perverse outcomes.