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SteveEisenberg · 04-11-2014, 08:17 PM

One part of my personal answer is to start a lot more books than I finish.

Another is that I read signed major media book reviews -- the kind where the review author gets paid (I know not enough). Here are some web sites to try:

http://realclearbooks.com/

http://www.nybooks.com/

http://www.lrb.co.uk/

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/

The last three above are available for your eReader via the Calibre Fetch News feature.

I also get interested in a subject (lately, 20th century Taiwan history) and search out books on it at libraries or via googling. But before reading, I try to find at least one review from a reliable source.

Lastly, I do sometimes bring up the Overdrive collection at libraries I have cards for, and search in categories that interest me for books added in the last so many days.

One thing I really do want is an equivalent of RottenTomatoes.com for books. Since the ratio of professionally edited reviews to books is so much lower than the ratio of reviews to films, a book review tabulation site could never be as apparently fabulous (apparently, because I hardly watch movies) as rottentomatoes.com. But someone should try.

04-11-2014, 08:17 PM	#18
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,435 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	One part of my personal answer is to start a lot more books than I finish. Another is that I read signed major media book reviews -- the kind where the review author gets paid (I know not enough). Here are some web sites to try: http://realclearbooks.com/ http://www.nybooks.com/ http://www.lrb.co.uk/ http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/ The last three above are available for your eReader via the Calibre Fetch News feature. I also get interested in a subject (lately, 20th century Taiwan history) and search out books on it at libraries or via googling. But before reading, I try to find at least one review from a reliable source. Lastly, I do sometimes bring up the Overdrive collection at libraries I have cards for, and search in categories that interest me for books added in the last so many days. One thing I really do want is an equivalent of RottenTomatoes.com for books. Since the ratio of professionally edited reviews to books is so much lower than the ratio of reviews to films, a book review tabulation site could never be as apparently fabulous (apparently, because I hardly watch movies) as rottentomatoes.com. But someone should try.