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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Though ultimately I don't care, the lack of any kind of verification that the person has read or even owns the books reduces the review to basically meaningless for me. At least Amazon marks "verified purchase" on its own site for reviews.
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With books, it's iffy - I have rated and reviewed a lot of books I haven't owned since before having a Goodreads account - I moved several reviews over from my book blog when trying to collect all in one spot. Even if they would only allow owned books somehow, I'd hate that since it would mean I couldn't rate/review books currently owned.
And the verified purchase is useful on Amazon to a degree - but some of that was due to giveaways and fake reviews on the site, I think. Most of the physical objects I buy on Amazon aren't bought on my personal account unless they offer a payment plan like the 5 monthly payments for Oasis, etc., but I prefer to review on my personal account (if I review at all), so it doesn't always mean not owned that way either.
People can have reviews on loaned and borrowed devices and books too that are just as accurate, so there'd by no point for any of this to be verified.
If anything, I find Amazon too picky and restrictive, very rarely review books on there anymore.