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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
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I love descriptions like this that you quoted: “Fae Demons - A TikTok dark academy romantasy sensation that pulls on your heartstrings and leaves you shaken to the core”
It helps me to immediately roll right past it and go to another book.
I would say this to publishers: Continue to do this, because the stench of such a description really does help me to move on.
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Ha, that is a good point indeed. It certainly makes it easier! (And also fair enough I suppose, for people who
do enjoy dark academy romantasy TikTok sensations, it’s helpful as well. I’m all for people reading what they enjoy, really.)
Re: long, description-stuffed titles in general .. I mean, most of the time it doesn’t matter to me much as I have all my books de-DRM-d and in Calibre, with the extra stuff removed etc. But when I was testing whether my Oasis battery held better after a factory reset, I downloaded some of my Amazon purchases straight to the device from Amazon and ..
I don’t use the book cover grid view on my devices, I use the list view with titles and authors, and it was just incredibly ugly to see them like that. I’d somehow assumed the descriptive bit would automatically get dropped, but it didn’t, at least for some of those books, so I guess at least for those it was entered as an actual part of the title itself. (I forget now which ones as I removed them from device immediately.)