Voltaire's perspective[1] struck me as more compelling: > To-day people complain of a surfeit: but it is not for readers to complain; the remedy is easy; nothi

Voltaire's perspective[1] struck me as more compelling: > To-day people complain of a surfeit: but it is not for readers to complain; the remedy is easy; nothing forces them to read. It is not any the more for authors to complain. Those who make the crowd must not cry that they are being crushed. Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! and if one read profitably, one would see the deplorable follies to which the common people offer themselves as prey every day. [1] https://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volbooks.html https://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volbooks.html