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Originally Posted by DaringNovelist
One tip for using samples to browse through books.....
Don't try to read them online and make your buying decision while shopping. Just download the sample (or add to library without buying if that's how your ereader works).
Then you can browse them at your leisure. And it goes faster too.
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I use the opposite approach. Adding files to the reader is more hassle for me than reading samples online. I don't want my PRS-505 cluttered with a dozen short excerpts that, if I like, I'll have to go back online & find again in order to get the full book. Especially since the sample has the same metadata as the full book--my Reader doesn't have a convenient way to tell me it's a sample; I have to go into the doc info & look at the filename for that.
I prefer to read samples while browsing the website; if I'm interested enough that a few minutes of reading isn't enough, obviously I like the book enough to read the rest of it. Whether I think it's worth the price the author set is another issue, but I don't need to read half the book to decide that.
YMMV; everyone has different ways of deciding what they want to read. I dislike the frustration of running out of book on my Reader, especially if I'm on the train or in a place where I can't easily get to the rest of it if I was enjoying it. Other people might not want to read as much on a computer screen.