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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
That doesn't follow. Sampling is just one more filter. No one is suggesting using sampling instead of looking at reviews and recommendations. Sampling an e-book is no different than opening the cover of a paper book before deciding whether or not to purchase. You've read the reviews, the recommendations, the cover looks like some effort went into it, and the blurb looks interesting. For the final filter, we can look at the book for ourselves. That might be opening the cover to read a little or looking at the sample.
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It follows since if you can detect in a paragraph that the book is not worth reading then the reviewers or friends would have told me so.
I am of the opinion that you have to read maybe 70-100 pages before being able to decide if the book is really good or just mediocre. And sometimes you have to read the whole book since a bad ending can make an otherwise very good book be a mediocre book.