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I have often looked at but not participated in discussions of the various clubs. I'm one of those who wouldn't vote if I knew there were some choices I really didn't want to read. I didn't want to feel obligated to read something I had absolutely no interest in. There always seemed to be at least one such book. And of course by not voting, I was reducing the chance that a book I liked would be selected....
Often if one of the selected books was an author or topic I might have been interested in, it was a book I'd already read and didn't want to reread. Or I'd look at my Overdrive library and they'd have other books by the author but not the book club selection.
How much I'd be willing to pay for a book depends on how interested I am, so I don't have a firm price limit.
Someone above suggested a buddy read. Maybe if someone has a book they think looks interesting and that they are planning to read soon, they could start a thread in Reading Recommendations describing the book and inviting anyone interested to join them? Give a few weeks to read it before discussion starts so that interested people would have time to obtain and read it. If nobody responds, then hopefully the OP of such a thread would still enjoy reading the book on their own and could maybe report back later regarding what they thought about it.
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