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Originally Posted by kacir
This forum is has MUCH more literate members than some other forums ;-). This is one of many things I like here. Literate, polite, well informed, thoughtful posts with very few trolls and flamewars.
By the way ... I wonder, how many members here have English as their mother language. For me, for example, English is a third language (used to be fourth).
To return to the thread topic: I think that bad blurbs are a time-saver. But, for books that are *that* bad, you do not need to read past the first couple of pages.
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Another good point. A glance at the opening of the book (if not encased in plastic or something) can also lead a reader to buy or put down the book depending on how well it's written. I think Apk has a good idea too in cases where English for example isn't a language a writer is fluent in. In fanfics the equivalent of the translator is the Beta reader and I have a feeling some don't have such a reader with how errors creep into their texts. As for how many of us have English as their 1st language, I really don't know. I know it's my 1st language and in fact I don't speak any other fluently.