Eating books is not the cause of obesity

Don't finish your books, or your meals.

I would think the food problem is the same in the sense that, yes, you can always finish it later if you really wanted to try to.

It provides greater difference in the sense that a longer book isn't necessarily providing more value. A bigger meal in economic sense does, because it has more calories or more value to consume. That's why many of the middle-upscale restaurants have larger portions, so they can charge more for the perceived value. You could in theory charge more by the page for your writing, but then you'd have a converse effect that some people (book snobs) would rather you wrote less and said more. Food snobs are the same way I guess. Look at the portion sizes of high scale restaurants, value is conveyed by quality or uniqueness of product rather than volume. But then it's hard to say that a particular dish tasted bad in the same way that a book wasn't to our liking. It's more that it just wasn't healthy for you to begin with and eating half was just as bad as eating all of it (at least if you ate out frequently in this manner, like most Americans).

The opinion of a book snob, sort of like me, views the commonly consumed fare like say the Harry Potter books, as a terribly written populist drivel worthy of the highest possible disdain. As unworthy of even picking up, much less finishing. I imagine the food snob would look at the carb loaded and meat-itarian diet I have with a similar air. But even I know to keep off McDonald's or only go to Cheesecake Factory once or twice a year as if it's some sort of indulgence (which it is). Food that tastes good is providing value in the same way that a decent work of fiction would, but it is valued, correctly, and used differently. The correct reaction would be to demand smaller portioned sizes at a reasonable value. Or to simply accept the current supply and amend our consumption intakes (by packing up half of a dinner out for later), in the same way that people can read part of a book and finish it some other time. It isn't to same to suggest that they should only eat half of something they enjoyed eating in the way that one would somehow read only half of a book they were enjoying. The rate of consumption is more important for food than books, but the quality is a different measure.