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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
A room full of bookcases full of books from the 70s and early 80s.
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And that anecdotal evidence was enough for you to state:
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In the 70s and early 80s, books over 200 pages were quite rare. Then the publishers figured out they could print 500 page books for not much more than the cost of 200 page books but charge a lot more for them, so they started looking for longer books to publish.
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Not only did you claim that books over 200 were rare--perhaps they indeed are in your collection, but do you have any justification for assuming that your collection is representative?--but you jump from your anecdotal evidence to make a claim about what publishers then specifically did in response.
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It's probably not a coincidence that readership started to decline around the same time. Books became bloated and boring, so people turned to other forms of entertainment that wouldn't need so much of a time commitment.
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I don't see how looking at your personal library allows you to conclude that (1) readership started to decline, (2) books became bloated and boring, and (3) people turned to other forms of entertainment.