>>24805309 (OP)
Yes, it does. For a girl the time you a reading a book is the time you're giving attention to something else then her. For those slightly advanced girls it is also the attention you give not only to imaginary characters instead of her, but most likely to imaginary girls - and not her. That either doesn't compute in her worldview, so you are delegated to weirdos, or does compute as the direct offense to her. In the later case whether this offence would be interpreted as "hurt me, daddy" for the most attractive man or as "yuck, gross" for the weak nerd depends purely on your looks and social status. So reading itself doesn't mean much - it is only one of many "actions, that are directed not at her and takes away attention from her for prolonged periods of time consistently" - and while being rivaled by other girl is understandable by her and there are understandable ways of counteracting other girl, it is somewhat hard to counteract such action, as categories of attraction are completely different, so unless "raw power" of attraction of the girl can consistently outdo that of reading (and in case of reading it often stops working fast on anybody but most spermotoxicose-induced youngs), reading tends to overtake a lot of time - making a girl seethe.
Now, whether you should read depends purely on if you like reading, like to know a lot and like to experience a lot - or if you prefer the life of an uneducated NPC, who can barely formulate his thoughts and is easily led as a cattle toward tye goals of whoever would decide to use you without you even realizing it.
>>24805331
Unfortunately, opinions of others relatively often can and will be translated to various physical and economical (not to mention social) interactions of neutral, positive or negative consequences to you. So it is important to know, what others might think. Now to intentionally be a crowd pleaser just for the sake of it would be retarded, as it will always take more from you, than you'll receive.
tl;dr: usefulness of reading in all aspects of life runs circles around usefulness of opinions of other people, but it is important to understand both.
