[Novel-reading is] "one of the more pernicious habits to which a young lady can become devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes at inveterat

[Novel-reading is] "one of the more pernicious habits to which a young lady can become devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes at inveterate as the use of liquor or opium. The novel-devotee is as much a slave as the opium-eater or the inebriate." Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 1882. (Yes, the cornflakes-guy). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1ocgQy4hQA8C&lpg=PA37&ots=tlqQiTD6FD&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1ocgQy4hQA8C&lpg=PA37&ot... There exists well-know literary mechanisms by which to make a book "addictive" and those mechanisms are used by unscrupulous authors and publishers to profit on getting people hooked on their books and to buy them and their endless sequels. Make an argument that also includes regulating certain plot-devices in pulp-fiction novels (that doesn't make you throw up a little in your mouth), then we'll talk.