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by miunau 462 days ago
I agree with the value of not wanting to participate.

But your reasoning for denying individualism is myopic. Do you only count the ones that have words printed in 16 point type using a standard layout as books? There are all kinds of layouts available in book form. There are graphic novels. There are photography books. There are pop-up books. Books with braille. Books that have augmented reality elements in them. There are poetry books where words are deconstructed on the page, maybe with pages cut up deliberately. There's notes and opinions scribbled on the pages. Or you might get lucky and find some old leaves pressed in between there. Every possible individualistic concoction you can do with a bunch of paper and some form of printing exists, and if it doesn't yet, it will eventually.

There are plenty of people that like the Lisa Frank looking websites. You don't need to be one of them, but you don't need to be a boring person, either.

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I guess all the most widely read authors (and almost every other published writer) are just boring.