I surrendered the ratings to the social metadata download. Thus my ratings are whatever Amazon or other, have the books rated. Since I have a slew of books that I haven't read this rating helps me a tiny bit with possible book or series selection.
Most of the time I move to my next read based on my mood and the recommendations of mobileread.
Some publishing houses put out series written my many authors under a single pen name. Many of these series as long as you read the first book to get the basic history you can skip books that have a rating of 1 or 2 because the guest author had no idea how the main character should behave. In these instances I have gratefully allowed the wisdom of the masses to aid me.
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