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For quite a few books from Amazon or Kobo, if I have found the description interesting enough, I will download the sample. If the first chapter or so in the sample isn't enough to hook me, very time has been wasted. Of course, this assumes the sample has enough of the book to be worthwhile. I still have a nasty taste left from one sample that by the time I skipped over the multiple cover images, the titlepage, the copyright pages, the other books by author pages, the author's social media links, a short table of contents, a full table of contents, a 2 page dedication, 3 pages of acknowledgements and the epigraph, there were a whole 3 pages of the prologue to be read. BTW, I didn't buy the book partly based on the lack of a useful sample and partly on the double-spaced prologue with a 1.5 line height space between the indented paragraphs.
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