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Originally Posted by Waflicka
This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm well within the demographic at 21 years old, and an English major -- so naturally myself and all of my friends are prolific readers. I prefer readers and one friend prefers audiobooks, but all of my other friends within this age bracket prefer books. Most have boxes of them in their garages for lack of storage space! Frankly, I think that the insinuation by earlier posters that people who prefer paper must not be prolific readers is quite offensive. Just because you prefer a screen, it doesn't mean that everybody else should -- some prolific readers are tactile readers, too. Get over it. The level of arrogance in this thread is a disgusting picture of this forum...
This, coupled with the obvious lack of reading comprehension when people answer basic questions in threads, makes me very, very doubtful of my decision to join. You're folks who can't see the forest for the trees, and half of you seem to think the trees are shrubs, anyway. *shakes head*
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I guess you missed the bits where people, such as I, were going by what we've personally seen.
Also, there's a marked difference between a prolific young reader who has a library of several hundred books (which, I'd think, is not insignificant -
most of the avid readers I know in that age group have maybe two shelves, no more than 100-200 books in their personal library, and they consider themselves big readers) and a prolific older reader who has a library of several thousand books at home already.
Most reading-inclined people find space for ~200 books at home, even if they don't have a garage (not everyone does, you know). When we're talking about ~2000, that's starting to be another matter, and one where even snobbish* teens and early-20s start thinking about maybe giving this awful e-reading business a try after all.
(*Note for those with problems with reading comprehension: I'm not saying all teens and early-20s are snobs. Some - even many - are, though, especially when it comes to reading, and they're the ones I mean here.)