How many books does a man need? (allusion)

[Mark Kohut]

more so than ever, yes, I'd say, although some good ones do sell and many
good ones might get rediscovered
at a future time




On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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