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Originally Posted by issybird
You've said this before, but I think a DNF book with a review that explains why it was a stinker is both valid and useful. Moreover, there's no reading oversight police to make sure a book marked read actually was read. Unless you're advocating a KU-type experience where read pages would have to be logged in order to post a review? Rather Big Brotherish, wouldn't you say?
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This is why I say the cure would be worse than the disease. There is no system that could ensure the book HAS been read. It could only ensure the book has been
marked as having been read. And don't get me started on systems that would try to use proof of purchase for anything.
Not accepting reviews/ratings on books that are unpublished seems simple enough, but it would have to take ARCs into account, no? And unless reviewers are concocting completely fictitious plots, characters, and/or events, then how damaging/helpful can contentless "reviews" of unpublished books be to any but the most gullible/fanatic of readers (or the most "helicopter" of authors)?