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Originally Posted by Mike L
I don't say I never get the text of the actual book. But I do say that I often don't get enough text to make a decision. If that was not so, there wouldn't be a problem.
Mike
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Fair enough. But here's my question: how much text would you say that you need then, to make a decision? Surely you're not saying that skipping the front-matter would always give you what you require. So forgetting about the front-matter entirely, how much of the book's text would suffice?
I, myself, am not really even looking for a whole chapter when sampling. By the time I'm ready to sample, I'm usually only performing a quick competence check--and maybe looking to get a bit of a feel for the style. So they've all been more helpful to me than no sample would have been.
