something i find really fascinating is the volume of creative works within their medium. like at some point in time it was probably possible to read every book in one lifetime, but that's clearly no longer the case. and since literacy is no longer restricted to specific class, the content of books

doesn't have nearly the same continuity or mutual resemblance that mediums in their relative infancy, say, anime or visual novels, do. now, i've cheated a bit by choosing examples with an almost inherently culturally bounded domain - however, we have begun to see the emergence of english VNs as well