I honestly believe the problem of books of our time is that they're still too long. By at least a factor of 2. Books are 200 pages long not because they have 2

I honestly believe the problem of books of our time is that they're still too long. By at least a factor of 2. Books are 200 pages long not because they have 200 pages of content to say, but because there is no business model for publishing physical books of 50 to 100 pages long. We see the more is better mentality everywhere in marketing. On Udemy, instructors flaunt how many hours of videos their courses have. On Steam, we see "X levels, Y different enemies, Z characters" all the time. In OP article: > Open the Victorian bestseller “Modern Painters” by John Ruskin and you will find that its first sentence is 153 words long As if this is a good thing.