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Oatkeeperz t1_jc9z1ge wrote

It gets people to read who otherwise wouldn't have picked up a book, I guess? Maybe their standards are different ;)

Then again, I know some older people who'd only ever read books that were in the top 10 bestseller lists (and definitely not all books in bestseller lists are that good, or at least, I don't think so), so it's nothing new, but just the same but on another platform, aimed at another target audience

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LKWSpeedwagon t1_jcae8mh wrote

This is why I don’t hate on Booktok. My best friend of 45 years has never been a reader, and in the last year, she’s read more than I have all because of Booktok and the impromptu CoHo book club that started in her office because of it.

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Bridalhat t1_jccrb01 wrote

That’s where I am. A lot the people who only get recommendations from TikTok probably wouldn’t be readers outside of that.

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