[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by Requiem

Realistically, I have been both reading and posting to some things on this site for over 2 years.

And in that time, you've been inspired to speak up 30 times. Including this post.

Why are there no original thoughts?

Some of the rest of us find original thoughts here. If you're waiting for the conversations to turn in directions you like, perhaps you could facilitate that by joining them.

Always, there are the same questions of authoritarian ownership, best books, worst books, and other typically mundane things.

For many of us, these are endlessly fascinating discussions to have, both with new people who haven't heard the standard arguments, and with known correspondents whose perspectives may be changed or enriched by recent events. Some of us like to discuss how known stances react to new situations, so we keep discussing the same themes--fair use, corporate control rights, authorial rights vs supporting the arts--through the filter of whatever's going on this week.

Is there no one here to speak of real meaningful ideas of what authorship should or could be? Or maybe a more in depth look on what literary works have or possibly could shape the future?

In case you missed it, the purpose of this site is not "literary review and analysis." It's "reading on portable devices." While "the future of literature" is certainly not off-topic here, it's also not what draws people to the site. If you'd like a more literary or academic focus, perhaps you could provide starting posts for those topics.

And if they don't take off, perhaps you could realize that it's not our job to provide you with entertainment.

I am desperately woeful on what the great readers of my time ("you") can come up with.

While I'm flattered to be considered part of "the great readers of [your] time," I have doubts that you *really* want to know what I think of the meaning of authorship or what works I think will or should become influential.

We keep regurgitating the same idealistic views, with no real insight, of the same topics that have beleaguered literary types for the length of time as recognizable to us. I have not posted much merely because it is irrelevant to what has already been spoken, even in this style.

You want new, original thoughts, new viewpoints to be discussed, but you have none of your own to contribute?

you can hate me for stating the truth, but so be it. I, personally, hoped for more from this group. You all, for the most part, are well read and know your own-selves. Yet nothing seems to be new, no new conversations, nor any new thoughts. I'm disillusioned and distracted by the thought of the readers ("us") into a spiraling downward spiral of mundane thoughts. Maybe a personal enlightenment could help me, or us all....

Again, in case you missed it:

Mobileread is not a literary critique site that evaluates books and decides which are and are not worthy.
It is not a philosophy site that discusses the place of literature within the cultures of humankind.
It is not a political site that seeks to increase the education level of the general public by promotion of important titles.

It's a site about ebooks and ereaders. That means we get, and will continue to get, a lot of discussions about how ebooks work, how ereaders work, which ones are moving into and out of the market, recent legal actions related to ebooks, and preferences for device settings and ebook formatting.

We're not going to stop discussing how long copyright is in various countries, because newcomers to the site will always need to know that. We're not going to stop discussing how right or wrong we think those lengths are, because even when we disagree, we agree that more people should understand that it's not a nice simple issue. We're not going to stop discussing what we think are accurate or over-reactions to new trends in digital literature.

If those discussions aren't adequate to your needs, feel free (am I sounding like a broken record yet?) (I will refrain from seriously considering how obsolete that simile is) to create threads that *do* address the issues you want to discuss, and make them intriguing and entertaining enough that people want to talk with you about those issues.