It's probably hard to have a blog that keeps getting a lot of views. I think you should re-read your post "1 year of blogging" and think about why you are blogging, what upsides there are etc. - no matter if you have tons of readers or not.
>SYNOPSIS: In Japan an estimated 30,000 people per year die alone in their homes in a growing social crisis known as ‘Lonely Death’. Specialist ‘Lonely Death' cleaner Masuda started his business 15 years ago after finding an elderly neighbour dead in her apartment. Masuda's young female assistant Miyu, is motivated by the lonely death of her alcoholic father. Together, they tackle the grim aftermath of two shocking cases. In Yokohama, a wealthy middle aged man dies alone but his relatives are unwilling to come to the apartment to collect his possessions. In Ibaraki, a man in his 60’s has been dead for two months before his neighbour raises the alarm after her apartment becomes infested with maggots and flies. The man was unable to pay his bills and had all his amenities cut off. Miyu discovers he has been defecating into buckets for five years because he has no running water. The man’s brother turns up to collect his possessions and Miyu learns how and why the siblings lost contact.
Not really. It's hard to even discuss or debate with people who have a strong opinion on things. Nobody wants to be told they're wrong, or proven wrong.
But onlookers who "are on the fence" on issues such as these, might get a seed planted in their mind. And hopefully seeing "fragile males" outraged on youtube does that as well.
> "Here are some things that you can’t do with a Kindle. You can’t turn down a corner, tuck a flap in a chapter, crack a spine (brutal, but sometimes pleasurable) or flick the pages to see how far you have come and how far you have to go. You can’t remember something potent and find it again with reference to where it appeared on a right- or left-hand page. You often can’t remember much at all."
I don't care about creating dog-ears or cracking spines. Really, who does?
On my kindle I'm able to highlight passages and/or make notes (which are saved to my amazon account) and I can look them up later. I can create multiple bookmarks. Some books have support for the "X-ray" feature, a reference tool, in which there might be entries on such things as characters, locations and so on.
I'm able to highlight words and look them up on wikipedia or the oxford dictionary. Very useful.
I'm able to "flick" pages back and forth and easily return to wherever I started out.
> "You can’t tell whether the end is really the end, or whether the end equals 93% followed by 7% of index and/or questions for book clubs."
I guess, not that it's a real issue for me.
And maybe best of all... I'm not dealing with mountains of books taking up space in my home anymore.