I suppose it's possible you recall buying Marve / DC books for 30 cents and then stumbling into the independent comics section, where low print runs required considerably higher prices for the creators to make any money. (Having written and co-published a couple of independent titles for most of the 1980s, I can promise you that I wasn't rolling in bucks from our $1.75 price tag for a black and white comic.)

I feel that way about major league sports, the iPhone, and almost all pop music. In other words, I'm a curmudgeon. On the other hand, I don't troll sites that discuss these things. What's your excuse?

Wait a sec… your rant sounds familiar…
http://natewinchester.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/co...

I can't imagine why anyone who reads for pleasure would want to complete a long-ish good novel in one day. How do you savor the story and the characters, not to mention the language skills and craft of the author when you are gobbling down the novel at a breakneck pace? How can you fully enjoy a beautifully woven paragraph or a piece of memorable dialog when you are barely tasting it?

"A good story is to be finished" – well, fine, but why are you rushing the experience so? Don't you like to settle in and resume a relationship with the printed word in a story that has already captured your fancy? It's about quality, not quantity. I just cannot imagine the reading experience as you describe it. If you'd like to explain yourself more fully, I am sure many people would be interested.

Do you keep the books you have read? What all do you read? Do you ever re-read them? I'm guessing that you are a young, female reader based upon your comments regarding never having owned a printed comic book and that you read romance novels.

Album covers – the amalgam of art and information. I listen to Jazz and Jazz LPs have a long history of containing printed information about the artist, the recordings, the other musicians, the time and place of the recordings, information about the songs and recording dates, observations and critique about the artist and the music, etc. With the album cover in your hand and the music in your ears, you hear and hear of the music you are listening to. The cover is made of warm wood pulp and it and the information and even the photographs that may be printed on and in the LPs cover bring you more in tune to the music. CDs are just cold little pieces of plastic and the 'covers' are little cameos too small to appreciate and the information inside as good as non-existent due to the small size of the print and photographs and the awkward size of the liner notes insert or booklet; it's like trying to keep a tightly bound little paperback with an unbroken spine open in one hand as your fingers themselves block access to the wealth of words that may be there.

I can't imagine why anyone who reads for pleasure would want to complete a long-ish good novel in one day. How do you savor the story and the characters, not to mention the language skills and craft of the author when you are gobbling down the novel at a breakneck pace? How can you fully enjoy a beautifully woven paragraph or a piece of memorable dialog when you are barely tasting it?

"A good story is to be finished" – well, fine, but why are you rushing the experience so? Don't you like to settle in and resume a relationship with the printed word in a story that has already captured your fancy? It's about quality, not quantity. I just cannot imagine the reading experience as you describe it. If you'd like to explain yourself more fully, I am sure many people would be interested.

Do you keep the books you have read? What all do you read? Do you ever re-read them? I'm guessing that you are a young, female reader based upon your comments regarding never having owned a printed comic book and that you read romance novels.

Album covers – the amalgam of art and information. I listen to Jazz and Jazz LPs have a long history of containing printed information about the artist, the recordings, the other musicians, the time and place of the recordings, information about the songs and recording dates, observations and critique about the artist and the music, etc. With the album cover in your hand and the music in your ears, you hear and hear of the music you are listening to. The cover is made of warm wood pulp and it and the information and even the photographs that may be printed on and in the LPs cover bring you more in tune to the music. CDs are just cold little pieces of plastic and the 'covers' are little cameos too small to appreciate and the information inside as good as non-existent due to the small size of the print and photographs and the awkward size of the liner notes insert or booklet; it's like trying to keep a tightly bound little paperback with an unbroken spine open in one hand as your fingers themselves block access to the wealth of words that may be there.