Nanfang points out that over 40,000 new books are published in Taiwan each year, so readers have been customized into different groups. The reason many people have trouble naming five important books if asked is not because they don't read, but because they read so much they are unable to suddenly select the five most important.
南方朔說，台灣每年出版的新書有四萬多本，讀者被分眾化了，如果要我們講出五本重要的書，很多人一下子講不出來，不是因為沒讀書，反而是書讀得太多，一時想不出來到底哪五本比較重要。