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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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?
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For me, time is not the problem; patience is the problem.
I work all day editing books on my computer. The absolute, very last thing I want to do is spend more time in front of my computer reading samples in an attempt to find a book to read. I would rather download a complete free ebook that has an interesting description and decent cover and then someday attempt to read the book.
Nearly all of the books I buy, I buy as a result of having read a positive review in the New York Review of Books or having downloaded a free ebook from an author who I discovered I enjoy or a book that is written by an author I have already discovered I enjoy. On occasion I will buy an ebook from an unknown author whose description is intriguing.
I also tend to buy nonfiction hardcover books on what are interesting-to-me topics that I have seen in an advertisement in the New York Review of Books that are published by an academic press whose editorial standards I am familiar with.
But just as I have no patience to watch television, I have no patience to wade through ebook samples on my computer.