A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

5 comments

• nephihaha1 minute ago
  I would imagine this sucks the fun out of some books and also forces you to read a lot of dreadful books. I knew a bibliophile who worked for a publisher and was sad to hear from him that he rarely got time to read for pleasure.
• david92745 minutes ago
  I had a good friend who did this -- was a reader for a movie studio, looking for adaptations. Everyone teased him for having such a great job.
• sharkjacobs1 hour ago
  > a professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation
  • dylan60416 minutes ago
    From studio output, it feels like all they read are graphic novels
• oinoom1 hour ago
  I started to find this article interesting but every time I tapped “x” on an ad to dismiss it, no more than five seconds later, the same ad would appear at the bottom and distract me. Over and over.
  • asdff1 hour ago
    The internet is so much better blocking ads.
    • ASalazarMX11 minutes ago
      If someone has the will to fight those little xs, they have the will to install uBlock Origin. It even works on iPad and iPhone now, through a regular Safari Plugin.
      • dieselgate7 minutes ago
        All my xs live in Texas.... and uBlock Origin even works on my locked down work Dell with firefox!
  • goodmythical57 minutes ago
    Archive.org has a few copies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20260000000000*&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lithub.com&#x2F;the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20260000000000*&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lithub.c...</a>
• anoncow29 minutes ago
  With exceptions, after sometime everything can bring you down or nothing can bring you down.