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Originally Posted by Catlady
How do you not get that reading a sample takes time?
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I "get" that quite easily. Because it's insanely obvious. I just don't believe that it's time you do not HAVE. It's not like you have to read the whole thing. A paragraph will usually tell you if you're dealing with a hack. How do you not get
that?
No sample is going to tell you if you're going to
like a book or not. Neither was a publisher's description. But if it's about wanting to avoid those who don't have a grasp of spelling and grammar (as everyone here seems to want to make it), then the sample is certainly useful. If you'd rather not USE the perfect tool to eliminate the garbage you don't want to read, that's fine. But you don't get to then say; "there's no good tools to allow me to filter the garbage." You can't have it both ways. Because you never had it both ways. There's always been a good chance of buying a book you don't enjoy if you use a pure "poke and hope" method. And does it really matter that much
why you didn't enjoy a book?