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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think we all need to be more willing to abandon mediocre books.
It's something I struggle with. I only abandoned 6 books last year (less than 4%). I suspect I should abandon more.
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I’ve gotten better about abandoning books; I abandoned 11 of my starts last year, about 6.4%. But at that, there are still a lot of books not quite bad enough to abandon, in that I’m somewhat curious to see how it turns out or it’s a not very good book but on a topic that interests me, with the upshot on finishing it of dissatisfaction. Then there’s waiting too long to abandon a book, which I did at least once this past year; I kept thinking it
had to get better.