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The whole discussion about book length - my personal stance is that it depends on the book, if it can hold my attention for 1000 pages...

I think the comparison doesn't work completely for me, because I enjoy music in a very different way than written content. I want to say...

Journey before destination, I don't read to get to a singular "point". Nope, because length is a plus. I would be more interested in a...

And they make those 1000 page tomes much more enjoyable because you only have the weight of your e-reader!

More important to these old eyes now is font size, line spacing, kerning and margins. Give me a 1000 page book with nice loose spacing...

I strongly preferred books that were long when I was younger, but this has been a huge shift over the past decade, and now a book needs...

I definitely prefer shorter works to longer. Not that I don't think the world of certain long-form works. But for me, a book really...

I have literally never felt like I wanted any book to be shorter...? Whereas I am frequently left wanting more. Sometimes from the...

I cannot imagine such a life. You must be blessed to never be confronted with persons - writers or not - who are babbling on and on...

I looked up "Julian Mays religous views" out of curiosity and got the weirdest AI hallucination from Google as the top result...it...

Similarly, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is an incredibly compact yet emotive piece of storytelling - there’s a whole journey...

The Emperor's Soul by Sanderson is the one of the best short stories ever, it covers all the narratives, introduction, main points...

This is similar to why I stopped counting how many books I read in a year. Different books are of different sizes, have different...

For me, length is a virtue and brevity somewhat of a vice. A short book has to be very good to justify it's shortness for me. Now...