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Originally Posted by HarryT
Surely, though, the primary purpose of the "blurb" on the back of a book is to allow someone who picks it up in a book shop to find out what the book is about and hopefully tempt them into buying it. With an eBook, that function is fulfilled by the description of the book in the store catalog, and hence the "blurb" is unnecessary to have on the book itself.
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Perhaps unnecessary but still nice to have. Some formats including mobi and ePUB permit this data to be in the file itself and available for display on the Library screen. This is a nice feature IMHO, since it helps you remember what the book was about when you decide to read it.
Dale