But there's too much out there to read everything, no matter how much I would like to, so it matters little.

A fact that infuriates me every day.

There's a series by Vivian Vande Velde in which there's a great VR device which, among other things, compresses time so you spend three hours playing a game but it seems to you to be three days, and every time I think of that series I think there are so many other uses for this than fantasy RPGs. For example, studying! Tourism on the very cheap! Catching up on your reading!