Not the way we do it. We often read in bed, and tell each other about interesting bits in what we’re reading. And we usually read totally different things.
Looks at Frodo’s story, looks at own story about meeting girlfriend through fellow TT-RPG friends, gaming together, and then getting married after years of living together, 24 years married…
We all win!
Well, maybe not my wife, she’s also too good for me.
Oh definitely, if you like things rough!
When I met my future wife, she had a pile of books with her - and I later kept running into her at the library (or on the way to it), so my conclusion is:
“It always has been”
OK even with meme help, I don’t get that. Why does the one have a gun? Who thinks this is funny? Why do I have an onion on my belt?
I don’t get it. I just know of it (welcome to my life as an old guy trying to keep up)
Richard Grant (AKA Lord Grant), in the Rivers of London series was quoted as saying that reading one of those Penguin paperback books, with the orange spine, was a total chick magnet (or words to that effect).
For reasons of space and convenience most of my books are now packed up, and I read on a Kindle, but [way] back in the day I used a three room apartment totally lined with milk crate & board bookshelves to wow the ladies that were wowable, and warn the others of my priorities…
The joke is that the perspective of space has allowed someone insight into a vast and important conspiracy; unfortunately, the other astronaut is in on it and is going to kill him. It started with a “the Earth is flat” version and has and spread prolifically.
Ahhh!
Not always. I used to read novels with kaylasmom. Sometimes we’d get a Braille copy* and take turns reading chapters to each other.
*And a print copy. I can read Braille, but not that fast.
When we had only one computer at home, in the early 2000s, we discovered that we could download books from the internet.
Problem was, how to read two books at once with just one computer?.
Solution: Open both books, use half the screen for each book and take turns scrolling whenever one of us reached the end of the on-screen text.
@Frodo, that has got to be just about the cutest thing I ever heard of. 
I suspect that most people don’t actually care too much if you read, but it serves as a proxy: all our brains have been scrambled by smartphones and internet access 24/7 so much that a lot of people struggle to be able to sit down and focus on reading just one static piece of information for an hour or two. Reading books is sort of a proxy that says your brain hasn’t completely been fried by modern technology and you aren’t entirely addicted to spending all day on the internet.