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Originally Posted by Skip Wyona
Interesting but dubious speculation here.
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Ummm... you're defending a 'person' that produces book reviews at a rate that would have to be damn near supernatural to be true, and it's
our speculation that is dubious..?
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No matter what you or I think about her 'reviews' you all need to understand that 'reading' many books in one day is not unusual for a librarian. It is part of the training to get the idea of a book by skim reading as quickly as possible.
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I doubt Klausner's prodigious churn out rate is a result of her being 'trained' by The Society of Speed-Reading Librarians.
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I have never thought that her reviews are meant to be qualitative but simply the type of review all librarians do to get to know what a book is about for book talks and book promotions.
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I fully admit I don't know a heck of a lot of librarians, but
this claim (along with the bit about 'training') seems rather dubious to me.
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Her written Amazon pieces are no different then the usual junk that passes as comment on Amazon except that at least she gives detail about the book's plot line.
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As Ana and others have pointed out, she frequently gets the plot details wrong. To me, this implies that she likely copy/pastes blurbs and summaries for books into her 'reviews', and occasionally pastes the wrong one. Or maybe she just has a terrible memory. Either way, it renders her 'reviews' worthless.
Besides, if you want to know the plot line, you can go ahead and read the back-of-book summary. At least you know it will belong to the correct book.
I am unclear as to what that link is supposed to demonstrate. It's a mini-"biography" of Klausner. Er... so?
I found this random blog (mockingly) dedicated to Harriet. Some people, taking this debate far more seriously than us, have actually gone to the extent of keeping detailed tabs on her reviews:
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Thanks to the awesome poster "buck210", we now have Harriet's updated statistical profile going over this past half a year:
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Stats so far this year, with a max of 306 in April and a low of 171 in May and an average of over 7.5 books per day for the year that Fraud Hattie fraudulently claims to have read and "reviewed".
185 fraudulent reviews in Jan 2011 5.97 per day
229 fraudulent reviews in Feb 2011 8.18 per day
204 fraudulent reviews in Mar 2011 6.58 per day
306 fraudulent reviews in Apr 2011 10.20 per day
171 fraudulent reviews in May 2011 5.52 per day
219 fraudulent reviews in Jun 2011 7.30 per day
218 fraudulent reviews in Jul 2011 7.03 per day
289 fraudulent reviews in Aug 2011 9.32 per day
So what can we expect for this month?? I'm predicting a slightly lower than average month, say around 200, as she just put out 79 a couple of days ago, she usually waits until the first of the month to puke them out so it's likely that this will not be a stellar 300+ month. But, knowing Fraud Hattie, it's still definitely possible...
Thumbs up, buck210! Last time I calculated her long-term average it was close to six (6) books a day over about a decade (starting late November 1999 -- the first review posted under her current account was dated something like 22 Nov 1999 or thereabouts). But now Harriet obviously went over that old parameter, hitting as much as 10.20 books a day (April 2011). Awesome! Harriet recognises no limits! If this keeps up she'll be reviewing 100 books every day.
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I have no idea how accurate those figures are, but that does seem like an awful lot of books. Keep in mind that in addition to finding the time to read all these books, she also has to have to time to post reviews.
Those figures seem rather steep, even if we assume that reading books and writing reviews is her full-time job.