And my view on books is that it's open. There are no constraints, so I don't see my viewpoint as narrow. A book is what you make of it.
I grew up on books and nothing else. No TV, no Radio. I read books at random, without a system, and I judge them by if I like them or not. And not by if others tell me I should like them or not.
Humility is not really something that can be explained easily, but when you finally become humble about the books you read, you will know it.
Or are you disputing that some books do that better than others?
Or are you just disputing that some people have a preference for books which teach them interesting things as well as entertain them?
Or perhaps you're just accepting that all those concepts exist, but you simply find that learning from books is of no import to you?
I'm not quite sure what your argument is.
+
One has to achieve humility in interacting with other minds.
=
Seems like you need to take a bit of your own medicine, mate. On the one hand you look down on those so-called "pseudo-intellectuals", "these people", for having a multi-dimensional understanding of the purpose of books, and on the other, you preach humility.
Get some humility into your own brain first. Those people you look down on see something you don't. That doesn't make them inferior, it just means your perspective is narrower.