You should tell them to get Neil Gaiman to explain it to them.

Awe, many a child has read under rhe covers with a flashlight. He has joined all those children who have come before him.

I am glad your child now has a love of reading, It will serve him well. Cute story.

So much this.

How would you like to have your work stolen and not get paid for it?

None of us would want to work for free, why do we expect authors to?

I’m sure this still holds true, but finding books online has certainly resulted in me buying more books. If I enjoy a book I’m reading I almost always buy a hardback copy. I don’t think I would have bought many (realistically almost all of them) without having read them partially before. It feels like the digital equivalent of reading part of a book in the bookstore.

You can't lend copies, full stop. By law, you may only lend the exact item you purchased. They would have to be mailing physical books to people in order to be following the law.

FSD also doesn't protect PC software.

As I’ve commented up-thread to someone else, the IA made books available worldwide, so they defrauded authors globally, as the UK isn’t the only country to pay authors per loan.

It took me a REALLY long time to work up the courage to DNF books. I still don't do it often, but it feels nice to just say "I don't like this. It's not worth my time."

heres another one: question why you want to read. for the clout? or for the internal validation?

Yeah so idk why you are arguing with me. I just stated reality. Internet Library did something they weren’t allowed too, functionally stole money from publishers, and now publishers want their money. It honestly doesn’t even sound evil even if it’s obscenely greedy

Yes! I do physical, audio, and ebooks, but I definitely read ebooks fastest, and enjoy them more. I like audio books for when I'm doing laundry or driving though

Years ago while walking through the stacks at Uni I stumbled upon a large book that listed references to genetic research, evolution, and any questions that tried to rebuff settled science. Sad that such a book even needed created.

I fondly remember doing this myself, a good start for a lifetime of reading! Maybe suggest he uses proper bedside lamp and that he still needs to get enough sleep

Thank you for clarifying that point 🙂

Only if you're trying to sell a photo copy of the book...

This was 100% written by ChatGPT. Not saying it's bad advice, but the style is very identifiable.

The Internet Archive is available worldwide.

And yet, they bought one copy of each book in exactly one jurisdiction.

They didn’t bother to buy Canadian, UK, European, Asian, African, etc copies so that the all of the author’s publishers, some of whom might be tiny niche houses like Poisoned Pen or Canongate or Europa Editions who took a chance on an unknown author, also got some income to help them and their staff during the pandemic.

The IA also didn’t bother to limit borrowing to the one jurisdiction where they had bought each book.

The IA ignored the fact that other countries pay authors – not publishers, but straight into the pockets of actual authors – for how often their works are borrowed from libraries through schemes like the UK’s Public Lending Right.

If the IA had won the US court action, they’d have been sued in other courts around the world and they’d have lost repeatedly.

This isn’t publishers bad, IA good.

This is a bunch of tech bros deciding that it’s okay to defraud authors globally out of what could be thousands in income for them.

You’re right that it’s not double dipping. It’s considerably worse than that.

Do I think that the hugest publishing houses act like a monopoly in the US? Yes.

Has anyone yet come up with a way to disrupt that which is fair to authors? No. And they deserve to eat. (As do copy editors and typesetters and everyone else in publishing.)

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Digital media often has a 3 year or 30-50 ish licensing. And they pay roughly 3x for ebooks and audiobooks from what I've seen. I haven't seen or heard of anything near 30x before though

I'm on IA'a side, and publishers have been circling, looking for a vulnerability for years. But IA did technically break it's one one-for-one rules during COVID, as an emergency library, so more people could borrow the same books at the same time.

It's sad that when our elected officials can come together it's only to protect corporations or to support wars.

Probably do another few fundraisers, I'm sure.

Personally, I think if it weren't my favorite book，So any method used will not work.So it's best to prioritize books that you like to watch，No matter what type of book it is.

In all fairness I will admit I was exaggerating when I said that. That said, my son's neighborhood friend is in the same grade as he is and is in public school and she does struggle with reading to the point where the school required them to get a tutor because she was not meeting their "milestones" for reading.

I also struggled with reading until I was in high school and it just took the right book at the right time for me like it did my son. (For me it was Dean Koontz' Fear Nothing audiobook on a two day drive to New Mexico, for my son it was Peter Brown's The Wild Robot.)

My wife and I are big proponents of not adhering to arbitrary developmental milestones and letting our child develop at their own pace because every child is different and forcing children into tutoring and into learning things when they are not ready does more often than not will instill resentment of something rather than the love of something. I remember this was a problem for me in school.

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Young adult stories contain romance because that's one of the most impactful parts of most teenagers experience of growing up.

First love, first kiss, the emotional impact etc.

The relationships are often unhealthy but that's partly being true to life because everyone involved is learning how to have such relationships as they go along.

Most people who love both The Secret History and The Goldfinch agree with you about Little Friend, for what it's worth. I can see why people call Goldfinch meandering, but if you don't mind slow pacing or characters doing things you wouldn't (and don't have a problem with the idea of digressions about art and antiques similar to TSH's digressions about the classics) I don't think you'll have too much to worry about.