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What Problems Do You Face With Books Today? (Patreon)

Published:
2017-06-16 15:41:32
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2026-09

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What Problems do you have regarding Books?

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Claire Joy

I have been missing this channel so I have been going through old uploads. My biggest challenge with books people writing glowing reviews of a book they have never read.

Miskatonic

I had to watch the video multiple times because I was intoxicated by the street long bookstore in the background as you were walking. Used bookstores for me are like a gloryhole for a nymphomaniac. Just seeing them in a video makes me tingly in my naughty area.

Adriano Teixeira

Books require time and attention and you can't take them anywhere. Another soul crushing thing about books is when you find out you can't remember anything about some particular book you've read some years ago. I think so highly of books, that knowing you can forget them completely really... hurts.

Marc Bruce

For me it's about time and comprehension. I would really like to know a better strategy for understanding the ideas that a book talks about. Currently I take highlight but I find that isn't that great cause I never can be bothered to go back and transfer them into notes by the time I finish a book. However I find that when I do actually do that, the ability to actually understand the concepts talked about increases. It just takes so much more time though!

Thomas

For me as someone who has grown up and live in the in the Information Era; my issue is simply information. We live in a time wherein, though we have a calling; we are prone to being magnetically drawn to our mobile phones in order to elucidate it for us. Once I had realised the power of reading (in part due to one of your posts, though I fail to recall its name), still, Wikipedia (I call it 'Lucifer in disguise') remained a rabbit hole that I'm still climbing out of. Good question Cliff. PS; I saw your post on Michel Leiris' 'Manhood' on the train last night. I'm keen to read it; but dear God I hope I get around to it 😂

James Connell

It is time, absolutely. Getting off from work, working out, trying to eat something not totally there for murder, public transport, writing. I never have difficulty reading once I am sat with the book (always physical for me), I can read the toughest son of a bitch once I am there. But it's time.

Anders Romeling

Perhaps more of an observation than a problem: Author Nathan Hill, who used to work as a teacher, noticed how his students rarely enjoyed the classics for the beautiful style or compelling characters. Instead the students perceived the books as enigmas that had to be decoded in order for the books to have value. In Hill’s eyes people would hopefully read classics simply because they liked them, and not just because they regarded them as an intellectual exercise or a literary duty. I definitely enjoy classic fiction for many reasons but I also recognize myself in Hill’s former students from time to time.

Aidan Scott

My biggest problem with books is that there are to many good ones and that they're too expensive.

Billy Edwards

The fact that they've been relegated in gift status to the point where buying someone a life-changing book is like buying a kid clothes for christmas.

Sean Conlon

For me I'm always drawn to reading books when I should be busy doing something that I don't necessarily want to do e.g. study, but when I've got a bunch of free time I always manage to procrastinate my reading. And so I think I've found a solution. I should study more!

Gerald Murray

My biggest problem is that many of the books today I feel are not of the same calibre as books of previous generations. There are a few exceptions, of course, but they are diamonds in the ruff so to speak. The problem with that is you find a good dead author and you eventually read through his or her material without hope of another book by them. At that point you are almost forced to experiment with modern authors, which I have often found disappointing. The greatest challenge in this respect is being able to discover the good authors in this era because they are often the obscure ones. Thankfully, this channel has steered me in the right direction on more than you occasion.

Andrew Ollerton

Time is probably the biggest one. Working full time, by the time I get home shower & eat, there are a few hours to squeeze in reading.

Zachary Jacobsen

At times I find I fall into the habit of reading to have read something rather than reading for pleasure and knowledge. As endless books pile up on my to-read shelves reading books can become a sequential task that becomes a grind instead of a meaningful pursuit. I've worked on getting in the habit of not thinking in terms of page numbers read but in the enjoyment I've gained or ideas I have encountered.

Kristy

I agree with Andrew, time is probably number one on my list. Exhaustion leads to me rather doing something less intense, because I want to make sure that I can spend enough energy on books that I enjoy.

Ochieng

I'm super late to this, but for me, it's the burden that comes from people romanticizing the effect literature can have, and the expectation that can't be met, because that romanticizing is getting in the way. Not that romanticizing is invalid or anything, it just makes it harder to read, but there isn't really that much that can be done with that. Nor do I want anything to be done about that, but I'd like to read these books that I presuppose have potency, based on what others have said about them, without the presupposed potency being the very thing that hinders me reading it. Any tips, anyone?

Stephanie Lehr

I am not punctual to this party, but the one of the most prevailing issues I take is with contemporary American literature, and its seemingly homogenous nature. A few years ago I eventually aborted my engagement in the genre because, for a lack of better term, everything and anything goes in this type of writing, in a generalized sense. The colloquial and stale prose irks me, and many of these novels strive to have an cinematic appeal as opposed to a cerebral appeal, forcefully striving to be a magnum opus, then ends up lacking cohesion. I have this criticism, albeit unpopular, of The Nix and The Goldfinch

Stephanie Lehr

Another issue I have is our ever-changing storage and distribution of books both as a commodity and as access to knowledge. Bookstores and libraries are not the same spaces as they were 15 years ago. Chain bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million (at least in my midwestern USA neck of the woods), carry more toys, geeky t-shirts, gifts, useless trinkets, and other non-literary paraphernalia to the extent that aisles of the stores are being devoted to it. A library in a nearby city to me installed a children's play area of sorts, with toys (not books) right in the middle of the one-story space. The library's acoustics is anything but silence now, with screaming children echoing off the stacks. Since when have these spaces for quiet contemplation have become playgrounds for entertainment and distraction? Hardly any library enforces a strict quiet rule these days, and bookstores are turning into toy stores.