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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I was just responding to the person who said that the idea that someone would read an old book instead of buying a new one was a fallacy.
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The fallacy is that old books are somehow an equal substitute for current literature. Which is what the article seems to claim. Why buy a new book when you can get an old book for free?
Just because a old book is available for free doesn't mean it's going to interest to me personally. I like to read urban fantasy and hard science-fiction. Those either don't exist in classic literature or are so incredibly out of date that they're laughable.
Really the only way free classic literature works is if you already like classic literature.