Although not a conscious decision, I think the reason I don't read books much is because they're long texts where only a small part is actually interesting.
They talk about listening skills, but more rarely discussed is adapting to the listener. A book doesn't adapt. It's like an old man droning on about something without noticing that the listener has fallen asleep.
Don Quixote defined the novel genre. It's too long if you ask me. I think the writer did it to impress somebody. "Look at this big book I wrote!" Most books take too long to get to the point. I usually just check summaries when people ask me if I read a book.
The flip side of listening skills is being too dumb to realise that you're hearing a lot of nonsense, so you just sit there like a tame idiot.
