Comment by onion2k
5 years ago
I genuinely don't understand why I or anyone else should care if some person wasted a lot of time on formatting a text to paragraph boundaries.
It's nice to take an interest in what other people do, and to show that you're interested, even if it isn't something you'd do yourself. It's the kind thing to do. Kindness is an admirable quality in people. Asking "why should anyone care?" shows a lack of understanding of that.
Please note what the author did say: "thousands (tens of? hundreds of?) of people will have read it during the past two decades, and NONE OF THEM CAN SEE IT!". I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't it sufficiently qualifies as "anyone didn't see"?
That doesn't say that the author thinks everyone should've seen it, or should care. Just that it's a work that almost noone sees while it's just there in plain sight. And the author finds it intriguing knowing about a thing that many have seen, but don't know they have.