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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9797135" data-attributes="member: 7033171">That is true and this "bang-for-the-buck" mentality makes me sad and increases my anti-capitalism and cultural-pessimistic tendencies. I think its the wrong mentality for enjoying culture. Because of that we get unedited fantasy tomes, 120+ hours open world video games with tedious grinding gameplay, 3hour movies of superheroes exchanging banalities in dull dialogue etc. Everything today seems to be either optimized to our dying attention span or optimized to block as much of our time as possible. Another aspect of modern society that seems to grow more to binar, polar opposites and losing everything inbetween.I love e-readers, the brought back my reading habit, I love having a light e-reader especially for reading on travel, commute or in the dark (to not wake up my partner in bed). I also love to borrow books from my library on my e-reader. But I also love bookshops and actual libraries for browsing and getting inspired, I love the smell of a book, I love taking notes in my books, I love having a physical library in my home where I can enjoy my caveman collector tendency. So I just use both. I use my e-reader to read a lot of the heavy books, on the road, for merely entertaining books (no notekeeping) and for unknown authors I discovered in library or on sale in the shop. But for my beloved authors or surprising 5-star books I always buy a physical copy (hardcover if possible) to enjoy at home.I have to say this is the first sentence I've ever read about WoT that makes me a bit curious. Everything I've read or heard about WoT including this thread makes me think its a boring slog of default Tokien-copies fantasy and the fact that Sanderson wrote the ending also disheartened me, but this made me a bit curious!I've heard also some critics complained that Kuang is too referential and "look-at-me, I am an academic". But I love the premise and I loved "Yellowface" - I already bought a beautiful hardcover and its sitting on my TBR stack. Looking forward for your impressions!</blockquote>

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