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Well, this is one reader who was not given what she wanted by Amazon, LOL! Guess I don't fall in the average category. And it's apparently not just the beginning of books that Amazon wants you to skip over!
I was happily reading a book tonight by Mary Roach, 'Packing for Mars' that hubby had lent me from his Kindle library. I reached the end, started reading the acknowledgements and BOOM, up popped the "before you go, rate this book" screen!
I mean seriously, can't I finish the book in peace? After the acknowledgements came a timeline. After that, a number of footnotes, and these were not to be missed, being rather funny! I'd seen some while reading, but missed others because the little asterisk link was TINY. And then there was a bibliography of source material where I highlighted two books I may go looking for. I always check out bibliographies, they are a great way to find further interesting reading!
You'd *think* Amazon would, at least, be in favor of that last behavior since it could potentially sell more books ... but apparently not, considering they did their best to have me close the book prematurely.
Then I got the before you go nag screen AGAIN, upon actually finishing the book, yeesh!
Sort of hoping maybe the first appearance of that screen was a glitch, but given they don't want to facilitate reading of front matter, I suppose elimination of reading the back matter makes sense in Amazon world, sigh....
Happy to go back to my Kobo tonight, Rocket Girl came in from the library. And I got to start at the cover, which has a picture of Mary Sherman Morgan. A nice touch with a biography, getting to see the person you are reading about!
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