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Old 01-03-2015, 08:53 PM   #155
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by howyoudoin View Post
The previews are extremely limited. Table of contents, preface, acknowledgements and a handful of pages from chapter 1. There is no reader who would check out a book from the library based on that amount of perusal. They're useful for checking out the formatting, not so much for the content IMO.
Because of how much content is before you get to the actual text, there's sometimes not enough text to decide if a book is to your liking or not. The preview should be 10% of the actual text. That should be enough of a preview.
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