isa ;

Personally, I am sick of people wanting everything to be cheaper, free, a human right, etc etc. When we make everything cheap, nothing has value. Not the quality, nor the labor, nor the ingenuity in its invention. It used to be that books were a luxury item. You have one as a status symbol. It is passed down. It is cherished. Like a piece of jewelry or art. Now people treat books like junk food. And the quality of books out there reflect it. There are very, very few works of literature past the nineteenth century remotely worth knowing precisely due to the fact that literariness itself is no longer valued.