My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

What genres are you looking for? There are a couple good communities, but youre right, not nearly as big or as niche as most subreddits. Though ive found the reccomendations to be higher quality when i do see them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

    For me it's fantasy. Stuff like Dungeon Crawler Carl, Joe Abercrombe or R A Salvatore etc... If you have a suggestion for an active community that's not on discord I'd love to hear it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Hmmm I am more of a sci-fi person, but I've definitely still seen some threads talking about fantasy books. I'm guessing you're already on the main book communities like !books@lemmy.ml !literature@beehaw.org ? They are pretty active and I do see discussion on threads talking about fantasy books. There is also the fantasy community !fantasy@lemmy.ml -- which does admittedly have pretty low traffic (though, you could be the change you want to see...). I found one niche community that was very recently made !cozyfantasy@wayfarershaven.eu

    I get how hard it can be to find active book reading communities & wish I had more suggestions in the fantasy realm. If you have a specific sub genre in mind, search for it or maybe even make a community for it. I was surprised to find a few different scifi sub genres already had active communities on lemmy & even recently made communities are growing fairly quickly with the new users.

    Good luck finding your next page turner & lmk if you want sci-fi recs :)

    Edit: to add and un-add exclamation points

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Just a heads up, I think you should remove the exclamation points in your links, it resulted in a 404 for me before I removed them.

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