I certainly wasn't interpreting your post as any kind of "anti-internet" screed, and you are certainly correct on your views of authors. The whole POINT of a book or essay, paper or digital, is to be able to easily profit from someone else's work and intellectual horsepower. The written word has been the major driver of our cultural evolution. Unlike any other organism, the human being has the potential to pass cultural and intellectual traits on to the rest of humanity long after the original human is dead.
Judgment and the ability to check the premises of the work on your own is, of course, always implied.
Some of the best things I've read on the net have been articles and commentaries by other minds, many of them far better minds than mine. Usually they're dismissed out of hand here as "bloggers," even with credentials a mile long on the subject matter.
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