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Originally Posted by HarryT
Would you trust a textbook that hadn't been peer reviewed? I wouldn't!
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Well, if I trusted the author maybe. But if I do not know about the author or about the people doing the peer review i would not trust it after the peer review. I would start to trust it when the book is beeing used and accepted by the community and there is more feedback. At the university where I work the people choosing textbooks are reading them and checking them themselves before choosing them for a course. I do not think they really trust only a limited peer review.