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Originally Posted by Alfy
I found that recently I am much more likely to drop a book I don't like. I usually give them a fair chance (for me, that's going though about a third of a book), but I don't push if I don't get it by then. Easy access to books is definitely the main factor in this change of habits.
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I think this is a good point. As a child and teenager, and even in my early 20s, I almost never abandoned a book. We didn't have many books in my house, and I wasn't always near a public library, so I was more reluctant to a stop reading something, and leave myself with nothing to read. Rather slog through a book, hoping it will improve. In the last couple of years, as I have been able to afford more books, and also borrow books from friends, I have found myself more inclined to abandon something, though I still feel that sense of dread I have been feeling for 20 years when I do so. I could probably count on one hand the number of books I have given up on.