[LDBoblo]

Ahi's point of view isn't as contentious as people like to make it out to be.

There are many lifetimes worth of reading in English ebooks, and if one is reasonably flexible, it's easy to have a constant flow of text available, but that does not make their reach comprehensive. There is still a significant amount of nontrivial work that is simply not available, even in English, through conventional sources. The situation is far, far more bleak in other cultures/languages, and multilingual works that are highly valuable in their respective spheres of influence are pretty rare. Even with modern commercial literature, there are quite obvious gaps and it irritates a lot of users, even on these boards.

For many people here, this is a non-issue, just like the crippled hardware concerns of mine or the discussion of typography and file format limitations. If 2 different people buy a piano with a few broken keys, one may complain loudly about the broken keys and the other may quietly play around it, not wanting to make a fuss or bring their purchasing justification into question. That's great, and very noble of the second person to be so forgiving of a problem. However, to deny the flaw's existence when recommending broken pianos to other people...that's another thing altogether. That's Craigslist.