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DiapDealer · 06-19-2013, 06:50 AM

It amazes me that people actually claim to be such busy readers that they don't have time to peruse a sample or two. Or that in the past, good books just fell from the sky like manna from heaven and opened themselves in front of their waiting eyeballs; making the "effort" of checking a sample so very, very onerous by comparison. I fear those of you who feel that way are just going to have do make do with your current TBR lists for the rest of your reading lives: the free ride's over. You're going to have to make an effort to find new authors now (actually, you've always made an effort. You're just choosing to downplay it).

Seriously. Anyone who thought getting dressed, driving to the bookstore, walking the stacks and reading some back-cover descriptions was somehow effortless compared to the terrible burden of checking out free samples isn't exactly being objective.

New favorite authors never fell in your lap in the past without an effort on your part, and they won't in the future (except through word of mouth ... a process that will remain largely the same moving forward).

06-19-2013, 06:50 AM	#302
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,732 Karma: 206739468 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	It amazes me that people actually claim to be such busy readers that they don't have time to peruse a sample or two. Or that in the past, good books just fell from the sky like manna from heaven and opened themselves in front of their waiting eyeballs; making the "effort" of checking a sample so very, very onerous by comparison. I fear those of you who feel that way are just going to have do make do with your current TBR lists for the rest of your reading lives: the free ride's over. You're going to have to make an effort to find new authors now (actually, you've always made an effort. You're just choosing to downplay it). Seriously. Anyone who thought getting dressed, driving to the bookstore, walking the stacks and reading some back-cover descriptions was somehow effortless compared to the terrible burden of checking out free samples isn't exactly being objective. New favorite authors never fell in your lap in the past without an effort on your part, and they won't in the future (except through word of mouth ... a process that will remain largely the same moving forward). Last edited by DiapDealer; 06-19-2013 at 06:54 AM.