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Originally Posted by ApK
Not that Katsunami is a particular offender, but allow me to use that as the as the last straw:
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Oh please, can we get past that elitist nonsense. Amazon became a billion dollar megaforce by SELLING BOOKS TO THE MASS MARKET.
B&N opened huge superstores all over the country by SELLING BOOKS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
People read, guys. Lots and lots of people read.
Find something else to act smugly superior about.
Spending MOST of your free time reading is not inherently superior to those who read more occasionally and also do other things in their off hours, like fight fires, drive race cares, build houses with Jimmy Carter, listen to music, serve in the National Guard, ski, or go out on dates.
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Thank you.
ApK
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Then maybe I'm in the wrong country.
I know a lot of people, and apart from ONE (1) other, NOBODY reads.
If they need to read something, even a PDF of 10 pages for work, they balk at it as if it is a punishment given for something they've done wrong.
One of the biggest reasons for teenagers to drop all language classes apart from Dutch (which is... uh... obviously still mandatory) is that they need to read 25 books for their final exam, per language. If I remember correctly. In my time, it was actually 40 or somehting. And you've got 3 years to do it.