There are tons of active subreddits about specific fiction books, but surprisingly few large subreddits about specific non-fiction books.
I wonder if this is bc you might discuss problems in e.g. Feynman Lectures in /r/physics, but fiction lacks cross-book “home."
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Of course there are Harry Potter subreddits, but there’s also, like… /r/houseofleaves (8k members!), /r/southernreach (4k members), etc.
And yet: no subreddit for MolBioCell! Or Sipser! Or CLRS! Or any Polya! /r/sicp has only 472 members?!
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/r/mikeandike (nickname for and Isaac Chuang’s text on QC/QI) has 2.6k members but two of the most recent posts are from (two different!) fans of the *candy* hoping this was a subreddit devoted to it!
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Yes, this is a sad state of affairs, and I wish more people were curious about big ideas.
OTOH...got a solid belly laugh from “give it to the candy dumbasses”
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:) FWIW I don’t think I interpret this mismatch as people not being curious about big ideas! I think it’s more revealing something interesting about the *medium* of subreddits “wanting” to support fiction communities more than non-fiction communities. Which is very interesting…