Red Széll

All I can say is that we all need to just go out and buy as many physical copies of books as

for friends and family as gifts as possible, because that's what keeps the authors going.

And that's what spreads the word about great books.

These platforms, the way that they are behaving is rapacious and unnecessary and punishing people who really do not earn a huge amount of money anyway.

I've come across them, yeah.

I mean, I must say actually hearing Alina talk, she's a wise woman and it just shows that actually...

As one of my daughter's teachers said, all reading is good reading.

It doesn't matter what you read.

You're still using your brain.

And I think...

We need to remember that books like Jane Austen's novels and Anne Radcliffe's novels were originally written off as, oh, they're just fluffy romance.

They're not literature.

They're now looked at as some of the best literature in the English canon.

And they've become, you know, set texts for people.

Just because it makes you happy doesn't, you know, you don't need to suffer to

to appreciate literature.

We don't all need to be reading James Joyce.

And I think a lot of the criticism that BookTalk has got is basically just trolling and bigotry.

And people should just go figure that actually reading is good.

And, you know, you can just keep your thoughts to yourself if you're going to be negative about it.