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Originally Posted by moonshot
I guess I do not have much support here being this is a site for the 'mobile' reader and some may be 'authors' of one sort or another.
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Actually, you've been getting a huge amount of support here. Many ways of determining the quality of books have been mentioned.
It's hard to see what else you could be looking for in this thread. If all you wanted was to see how many people agreed with your assertion that books can exist without authors, then you've had your answer.
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Originally Posted by moonshot
so the answer is no.  I thought not.
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In what way is Bilbo's thought experiment not a good answer? We've all been in bookshops countless times. We've all been aware or our own behaviour and that of the other shoppers. Have you or anyone else ever seen anyone walk straight in and grab a book totally at random and march off to the counter with it?
Surely the overwhelming evidence is that people check the books and even browse for some time before purchasing?
Graham