Maybe this is tangential, but sometimes when I go into the bookstore, I ask myself how many of these books were really necessary. They're filling some sort of n

Maybe this is tangential, but sometimes when I go into the bookstore, I ask myself how many of these books were really necessary. They're filling some sort of need, it just isn't for information. The shelves with the most new books are invariably the topics that nobody knows anything about, like business or love. I guess I'm asking how many authors we really need. I still haven't gotten around to reading The Brothers Karamazov.