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Originally Posted by Redcard
I tend to not treat free books any differently than any other writing out there. I approach them, generally, as I approach all books. This is a modified Nancy Pearl approach. I tend to try to read around 10%-20% of the work. If it has me hooked, I continue. If it does not, I move on to something else.
Free or cost, it doesn't matter. If I hit the 10% mark, I ask myself if I want to continue. If I hit the 20% , I force myself to either put it down, or continue. I've read all fiction this way. Fan fiction, free fiction, pay fiction. Serials, Baen books, Asimov's Science Fiction, whatever. It doesn't matter to me.
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That is pretty much how I am. I have put plenty of seemingly good books down from a major author that just never kept my attention or the writing was just there as if they were going through the motions of their 20th book without any real story or catch to it. Others started slow and I kept reading knowing that it will get better, and sure enough halfway through it picked up and really took off... This happens with free, paid, shared or lended books, so cost is not an impact, it is reading material that affects whether I continue to read.