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Originally Posted by VydorScope
This is most of your classics like Moby Dick, Shakespeare, and so on. I would guess most people have never read them . . .
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And I would guess that loads of people bought Harry Potter books and never read them.
Unlike most classic novels, Moby Dick has never been a bestseller. But it might be that people who buy Moby Dick are more likely to finish it than people who buy Harry Potter books. We just don't know.
Right now I am reading
Wandering Star, published in 1911. Does that make it a classic? Don't know, don't care, it is wonderful.
And I can assure Giggleton that Sholem Aleichem wouldn't have written it without copyright
