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Originally Posted by jbcohen
However that does not mean that I refuse to pay for my recreational reading I simply refuse to pay $10 per novel, no one is worth that I do not care who you are or what you have written no book is worth that.
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War and Peace, 1100 pages. Say you read it at 50 pages/hour, so 22 hours of entertainment. At $10 that's 45 cents per hour. Of course War and Peace is free at the Gutenberg Project, so it's not the greatest point of reference. How about Matterhorn, the recent Vietnam novel? 600+ pages, 12 hours of reading, 83 cents per hour. A much better deal in terms of cost per hour than a movie, a bottle of beer, a cup of coffee or just about anything else short of sitting in the sun on a park bench.