I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase “Men who have Sex with Men” in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

It’s in the past tense though; we don’t have to assume it was now-ish.

(I want to believe!)

They were just examples. My point is that novellas can be just as good as full length books!

You are very very fast!

I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.

I find this attitude chilling.

I am by no means a speed reader, but even I think 238 words a minute is painfully slow!

There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.

Given their claim I would assume @[email protected] will have a much faster reading speed.

Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).