Thread: 12% of ebooks are self-published; most are rubbish, claims editor
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Old 06-20-2013, 02:34 PM   #363
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
Hmm... I guess my standards are more subjective. When I am going through a large selection of books, online, at a bookstore, at the library, whatever, I am trying to find a book that I am sufficiently interested in, to buy it. I am not very much interested in rating the books by some measure of their "Quality", just if the book might be fun to read or provide useful information. Imperfection is not an issue. Relative measures like "Mediocrity" effect me, not at all. I certainly would like it if the majority of "mediocre" ebooks were ones that I enjoy. It must be very limiting, if the only books you want to read are the few (by definition) "Extraordinary" books that you can find.

I wonder if, for some of you, your motto might be: "Life is too short to ENJOY a mediocre book!"

Luck;
Ken
For me it is that I follow certain authors and I read award nominated works to follow the genre. But I only read 50-100 per year so if I am going to read something new it has to be very good since I already have enough to read anyway.
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