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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I am soooo glad I cured myself of the need to edit every ebook I buy before reading it.
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I wouldn't even know how! Books I read usually have a decent table of contents so it's not that hard to skip to what I want.
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Originally Posted by sun surfer
I consider all that as the 'main' content and separate it from preamble content such as introductions and most forwards because I hate that most of them are full of spoilers and would prefer all content like that to be afterwards but unfortunately the world isn't built around me. I wouldn't mind reading them first if it's a re-reading and already know the story, but there is so much I want to read that I've never read that it's very rare I re-read.
All this also touches on a huge pet peeve of mine as well. When you want to preview a book, such as at Goodreads or Amazon or wherever, they usually only give you a short excerpt to preview. All too often, this preview begins with the introduction of a book and so the actual preview of the main content is cut, and often the introduction is so long that the entire preview is of introductory materials. It's really ridiculous.
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I agree with you re: the intros. Back in high school I was spoiled for the outcome of a classic book - I was new to such things and didn't know they often contained spoilers. I find it often works better for me to read any introductory material after I've finished the main book.
If you have access to an Overdrive library, they usually have substantial samples of the main content.