> When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games. For video games, there

> When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games. For video games, there are a couple years in the 1970s for which this might have been true, but between just the Atari 2600 and the Apple ][, there's no way anybody could have kept up with the flood. For books, I went over to ISFDB and searched for 'novel AND english AND 1980' which came up with eight hundred and twenty three results. Some of those are duplicates, but even a tenth of that is better than one book a week, and that's just one genre.