Does it count as reading?

I have been thinking about something recently. I read a lot, but I don’t count everything as “reading.” First: FanficsVery easy to tell I don’t count it as “reading”. Some have, for a lack of a better term, a low quality, but that is what makes them so entertaining. Others were written by Shakespeare himself, so beautifully written I forgot the original media. Do not be fooled. Fanfiction is much more than just smut written by horny teenage girls. In my opinion it is mostly mocked and scorned because of misogyny. I have a loose memory of someone saying something along the lines of “There is nothing a teenage girl likes she isn’t mocked for” and it's true. I think a similar thing happens with the romantasy genre, but I’ll not elaborate on it. There is this idea that fanfic is just porn or an attempt at it. Pure mistake. There is so much more. There is smut, I’ll not deny it. But the possibilities are infinite! I myself am fond of the “&” tags (characters names connected by a & mean…