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Originally Posted by BWinmill
In this case, a little snobbishness is probably a good thing.
I don't expect people to be heavy readers, but I do believe that reading is part of a balanced life. That means that I find walking into a house without any books off-putting.
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I expect that in time, with ebooks and ereaders becoming more prevalent, that reaction might change - it'll be entirely reasonable to expect that people have moved over to ebooks.
As it is, ebooks are very much in their infancy here (I think it's basically only in the last year or so that many - certainly not all - newly published books also come in epub editions, and there is active digitalisation of public domain classics by the best known 19th / early 20th century authors going on, but we're talking in the low hundreds, not thousands or tens of thousands of books) and I expect most ebook converts for now are the same kind of people like me, i.e. people who were already reading largely in English and had to import all their reading material, so a home without books = very likely a home without readers...