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I abandon books with wild abandon and have ever since the freebie and borrowing became widely available. I don't even download a ton of freebies, but the ones I do, I at least sample most of them. I've stopped at just about every percentage there is: First page, middle, 10 percent from the end, you name it. Some books start pretty well and degrade as I go and I've learned to dump them early and often. Some books are real gems and I finish them and am thrilled to have found such a bargain.
Because of freebies, I will now happily abandon books I've purchased if I don't like them. It could also be some of the trends in fiction these days. Have a great plot going that degrades into a morass of love triangles or various ridiculous sex scenes in the middle of danger and I've learned to dump and dump fast. Too much exposition? Gone.
Something better comes along? Gone. Cozy mysteries are hit or miss with me, but if TSTL shows up in the first part of a book and I'm not likely to finish. Too much time spent swooning over a jerk of a guy...gone. Let's get to the dead body!
I do a mix of synched versus not, but I am quite certain Amazon gets plenty of information from my reading. Since many of the freebies come from Amazon, I don't do anything special with those other than sample and possibly buy the next in the series if the first is good. But I don't always buy the next in series from Amazon (I'd say it leans heavily towards buying with coupons from Kobo).
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