Agree. I am a reader but nothing crazy. I don’t set reading goals, I don’t read for hours a day or 100 books a year. I don’t read with every spare second I have or carry a book everywhere I go. But I read daily. My husband is not a reader. He reads once in a while. Maybe 1 book a year. I read like 60. That means our “average” is 30 books each. Which is meaningless information because it’s not remotely representative. One year I might read 30, and another year I might read 80. But I read regularly and have a TBR list.

I can’t do audiobooks and also have a hard time with podcasts that are more than 20 minutes or so. But I can read a physical or kindle book for hours in just about any location. Auditory processing is a bit wonky for me, and I think that is why. I’m just not a good auditory learner. Whatever my eyes are focused on is where my attention goes, so the only time I can actually listen is if I am basically sitting in a chair or laying in the hammock and can close my eyes to listen. Otherwise, my attention is too much on driving or walking or cleaning or whatever.

It’s interesting to me that people would want reading to be a social activity. I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s just that I, and most people I know who read, do it as a solitary activity without much desire to talk to people about what they are reading. It’s rare I talk to anyone about anything I’m reading.

There are more and more silent book clubs sprouting up, maybe that would be for you? Where everyone just shows up but read silently because they all read their own book of choice, so it’s time with others in a shared activity but in a parallel way.

Old hag in the woods growing and picking plants and flowers and mushrooms. Fishing and hunting. Being whispered about by the townspeople for being solitary while I laughed at them for throwing buckets of poop out the window onto the street and giving each other diseases.