Why do publishing companies seem to think that people are dumber than half-retarded giraffes? Yes, I realize that there are some monumentally stupid people in the world, but I doubt most of them read a lot of books.
"How so?" you ask, once again talking to yourself and relishing in the self-referential humor. I want you to try something for me. Look around wherever you're reading this. Bedroom, office, cubicle, dungeon, whatever. Now, try to find some sort of novel. If you can't, go out and buy one. It'll do ya good. Now, take a look at the cover. Naturally, it should have the title of the novel on it, unless you took the dust jacket off. Or it's some really pretentious "art" book. Or you bootlegged it. Now, open the book up. Again, you will see the title, this time on some sort of title page. Then you start turning the pages. For some reason, there are some random, blank pages for absolutely no reason. After turning through them, you will find the title AGAIN. Then possibly some more blank pages, some copyright crap, and finally, the actual book. Sometimes, there's yet another title page.
But it doesn't stop there. No, now they have to print the title of the book on the top of EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE. Why? Why is all of this necessary? Is it just in case we forget the title, so that we can be easily reminded? Even with that absurdity as pretense, it still doesn't make any sense, because you could just TURN TO THE COVER.
Logical conclusion: Books are tools of the devil designed to make us think we're stupider than we are.
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