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Originally Posted by Raphi'Elohim
The problem with the looking in the Amazon book inspectionally is they have it almost entirely ass backwards (they limited me to reading the first few pages). The first thing you want to do once you get up to reading the table of contents is to dive into the chapters that seem most crucial to the book and then read a few paragraphs here and there. That is the only way you can tell if a book is good and Amazon does not let you do it : I just tried it before posting here.
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Some of them allow a random jump to somewhere in the book. For non-fiction, the contents is my first port of call. Usually those first few pages will give me an idea of whether the book is authoritive or padded.