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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Given that, I can assume, I hope, that any book which was recommended to you has been reasonably well-edited, and is free from egregious spelling/grammar errors.
Likewise with any book which you are already familiar with (wait, this only covers repurchases  ) or with the author...
If someone recommends an indie-published book to you, and you trust that person's recommendations, will you really reject it because other indie books that you weren't recommended haven't been edited?
If you have already read books by that author (because someone recommended their indie book and you liked it), do you have a legitimate fear that the next book won't be edited?
Or do you have a list of people whose recommendations you trust who will recommend absolute garbage that hasn't been near an editor, and if so, on what grounds do you trust their recommendations? |
We've already had this discussion earlier in the thread, so there's no point in re-hashing it all again. Basically, though, to summarise, people have a wide range of tolerances to such errors, and mine is very low. I am therefore wary of recommendations of self-published books because although I might know that the recommender share my taste in subject matter, generally speaking I won't know how tolerant they are of errors.
See earlier in the thread for a much fuller discussion.