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Originally Posted by Xanthe
None of my real-life friends share my reading tastes. I've only found like-minded readers online. Many times I've used their recommendations to find new authors.
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I find that it is usually a situation of "I like this book because of .../My friend likes this book despite of ...". This is why recommendations don't work for me.
I think that I haven't switched to ebooks yet because of the way I buy pbooks: the cover. I go to the book shop and I pick up the books with interesting covers. Sometimes they are written by authors that I know, sometimes they are written by new authors, and sometimes they are written by an author that I know, under a different name. Seeing the cover on the computer screen doesn't make me want to buy the book.
Also, if I have doubts about buying the book, I usually read a few phrases in the middle of the book. If it makes me think "I really want to know how they got in this situation", I buy it.