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Old 03-14-2011, 07:56 AM   #69
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater View Post
In practicality, how would they know you finished the book? Some people can devour a book in a single day, others take weeks. Some flip to the back and read the ending first, some start at the acknowledgments and read on. What metric would they use to decide you'd actually finished the book once?
When every page has been viewed. The only fiction books I would see that being a problem with would be short story anthologies. Some people would flip through the boring ones, but others would go to the contents and navigate to the next one from there. The flippers would be seen to have read it, the navigators wouldn't.

That would be solved by just giving anthologies away for free since they are basically just advertising for other things the contributors have written.
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