How many books does a man need? (allusion)

[Mark Kohut]

Arthur,

Take it from one who knows: most of those books, say 160,000 are not worth
reading. Say 100,000 are what I call interchangeable books, newly
reshuffled pages of generic stuff: on self-help, business, dieting, etc.
etc. that leaves 20,000.....at least half of those are the equivalent of
vanity publishing, I say....not good enough for anyone but relatives and
tenure-granting Department heads to read....so, maybe 10, 000 now, of which
at least half of those are medicore, earnest finishers....so, 5,000 left,
of which more than half cannot be of any major reader's interest since we
cannot be interested in all---that half varies by individual, of
course---so only @ 2,500 fiction and non-fiction ( or around 55 a week)....

So.......just.......read....slowly.......enough; .....feel.....every
...............word ......which the books worth reading demand......

to not care about the other 54 while you are reading.
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