[globular-toast]

As someone who reads books for fun (including hardcore technical books) I get where you're coming from. But I think the author understands that books can be both fun and useful. In fact they point it out several times. There's nothing wrong with reading books (or watching netflix) for fun, but there's nothing wrong with doing it because it's useful either.

[cmiller1]

Perhaps, but the fact that they needed to include that line almost defensively speaks to the culture, as if they had to justify why they were reading fiction books.

[toofy]

people are allowed to blog why they decided to read more of some genre.

why does it upset you so that someone else wrote their own personal reasons on their own blog?