Well, it is not that simple. You no longer have the liberty to stop reading if you find it boring. You have to provide a summary, even if you don't understand or if the book is not deserving. In other words, what you once loved becomes work. Net loss - one hobby you might have truly loved.

The way you describe it reminds me of how I've heard video game QA testing described by friends who did it briefly. At first it sounds like you get paid to play games, but in practice it's not your favorite type, sometimes you have to do repetitive actions to try to recreate a bug, etc.

I had a roommate that reviewed porn. At our age it sounded like the best job ever, but he showed us his review sheets. He had to document the timestamp of every lick, rub, fart, moan, squirt, insertion, scene change, et al. He absolutely hated it.

I did paid beer testing for market research once. It wasn’t fun! Had to take sips of dozens of out of date beers, all the same brand and fill in long forms about each one tasted.