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Now we're also getting into the topic of "what is waste". Because the majority of the books that are opened are rehashes of the same murder mystery over and ove
by mrweasel 2y ago
Now we're also getting into the topic of "what is waste". Because the majority of the books that are opened are rehashes of the same murder mystery over and over and over.
I'd guess that 75% of all new books sold here are variations on "Someone is murdered in a brutal fashion. A old drunken cop from somewhere in Scandinavia is assigned the case. He's helped by a young woman, who may be his daughter or who he'll a father daughter relationship to. They solve the case, maybe, the end. You just tweak the details a little, but it's the same bloody story over and over.
That seems like such a waste of paper in my mind.
- S_Bear 2y agoAs a librarian, that's only around 35% of new books. The rest are about a hard-working professional woman in the big city that inherits her dead aunt's coffee shop in Cape Cod and has a prickly love-hate relationship with the local handyman. There may be a magic cat involved. And books about vampires having love triangles with a werewolf/zombie/black lagoon monster and a Mary Sue insert.