The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.
People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
No one knows why books do well.