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Originally Posted by Catlady
And that anecdotal evidence was enough for you to state:
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.
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.
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Are you saying there hasn't been a decline in reading?