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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
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
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THANK YOU!!!!
Most of you people seem to spend all of your time doing your best to pick books apart rather than just reading the damn things. Reading is something I do for pleasure to de-stress from long days at work. My brain is usually perfectly capable of figuring out what is an enjoyable book to read and whether or not I'll have fun reading it.
I don't spend a whole lot of time trying to find the PERFECT book, I look at books in the genres I like, read the blurbs (no blurb no read) if the blurb sounds like I'll like it, I get the book, I have very seldom steered myself in the wrong direction.
If anything I will have a favorite author like Anne Rice that I have a lot of books, but all of a sudden she goes off the deep end so I have to quit buying her books. I've had that happen more often then buying a book that I didn't enjoy.
But then, I wasn't trying to be a flippin editor, grammar officer, stylist or whatever with every book I have ever read.
I feel sorry for all of you that are so hung up on the details that you can't just sit back and enjoy reading.