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Originally Posted by ApK
Only what I (and others) have been saying: yes, if you're just in the mood for some kind of book, one might be every bit as good as another.
But in many cases, you want ("need?") a specific book, then you're not going to get the same feeling of pleasure out of any other.
(the pleasure of completing the multi-book story you're in the middle of, the pleasure of passing the class because you bought the right text book, the pleasure of reproducing the recipe you loved because you bought the cookbook that HAS that recipe in it...whatever....) .
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Whole lot of conflating going on, it seems to me. Pleasure deferred is still pleasure and perhaps even greater, and why someone “needs” to read another book in a series, rightnow, is beyond what I’d consider a need. Unlike passing a class for which you’ve already paid beaucoup buckaroos, to use another of your examples.
Readers read. They also have preferences. But it’s not so granular as all that, that they can’t get as much pleasure from a book they already own as they wait on price developments on the latest best seller. And if it truly is that one single book, they’ll probably find the wherewithal.