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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
As time goes on I will have more and more options for books; something in the range of 200,000 books published in the United States alone last year. How can I possibly make sense of that landscape and find a great read?
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One method is to use a trusted gatekeeper whose recommendations tally with your reading preferences, whether that be a publisher, a review blog, a critic, or anyone else. Such a gatekeeper can be a very valuable resource; the reason I buy Baen's monthly book bundle, sight unseen, every month, (and have done for some 15 years) is that I know that even if it contains a book by an author who's completely unknown to me, the odds are I'll enjoy it. I've discovered many authors that way that I might not otherwise have encountered.