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Originally Posted by patrickt
I wouldn't mind a system that had five stars and an N/A. Honest people could use N/A when they thought the book was good but the editing was horrible or the price outrateous. The dishonest could, as they do now, keep using one star.
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Yes. I like sites where you can write a review, but don't have to leave a rating. I can write "I did not like this at all because [reason], it was just not my cup of tea", which is useful for people who dislike the same things I do, or like the things I dislike, but the author is not "punished" for me reading a book that wasn't to my taste by having the average rating dragged down. Or I can mention why I stopped reading a few chapters in.
(Since I read quite a bit indie/self-published stuff with relatively few ratings, the impact of one low rating can be pretty big.)