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Originally Posted by darryl
@Katsunami. What your difficulty seems to be is not quality but choice and affordability. The Internet has given us both, but we are ill-equipped to select from such a large variety of options.
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I think that this is the problem. Affordability is not really the problem; I could spend $100 or more on books if I wanted to. However, maybe, by becoming more affordable or even free, affordablility *IS* the problem.
Previously, when I had to pay up to €10 for a paperback, I'd pick what I wanted to read, because otherwise it would become too expensive, or it would take too much space. Now, with Delphi Classics costing €2 or €3 for a writer's entire oevre, books also cost €2-3 using Kobo codes, I can now literally go like:
"Oh, this might be interesting, and this, and this, and this...."
I've done so for a few years, and bought everything I ever wanted to read (even back in the day), bought everything I *think* I *might* want to read (which I only did rarely back then) and bought every Delphi Classic from every writer I know even superficially (which I would have never done back then).
Now I have like 10 times the choice I had back then, but it's *NOW* that I'm thinking: What should I read? If I read this, I can't read that. Previously this was not a problem, because having an 800+ book library at home wasn't even possible due to lack of space. I only had the thing I wanted to read.
Sometimes I would like to be able to pick up a book, sit down with it, and read it in about 2 hours and then remember it perfectly for the rest of my life. Then this "what should I read" would never be a problem.
So, the problem has moved from "choose according to available money/space" to "choose according to available time".