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Originally Posted by Mivo
How do you know that before you have read them, though? If I bought every book that I find appealing based on genre, synopsis, author, reviews or recommendations, I'd go broke in no time.
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I couldn't rank them, of course, and different books appeal to different moods, but I think it's easy to make gross distinctions. Even just using the factors you cited, I can't imagine that every book scores equally highly in all respects. Generally speaking, I know what I like. Occasionally I get it wrong, but a priori I could quickly separate my TBR into three or four categories based on my interest and expected enjoyment. Some books would be marginal, that's always the case, but the bottom line is that I can tell which books I'm interested in getting to soon and which are likely to hang around for a while.