How many books does a man need? (allusion)

[Paul Mackin]

Isn't it also true that the books not worth reading are the ones that
sell?  Excluding vanity and tenure granting, I mean.

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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