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Originally Posted by kennyc
After a few weeks of research and investigating ebook readers I settled on the Sony 505 and am loving it. Interestingly along the way it seems I've found that the ebook world is a mirror of the WWW.
What does that mean? It seems that the floodgates are open. There is no longer a gatekeeper. The WWW allows anyone to post - i.e. PUBLISH anything, right, wrong or indifferent. Wikipedia has run smack-dab into this and are now considering having gatekeepers (i.e. editors) for various pages/topics and not allowing anyone to post just anything without verification.
It seems there is a tremendous amount of trash out there in/on both the web and ebooks (free and/or non-free).
To me it seems the issue is to somehow navigate the flotsam and jetsam and avoid the chaff while finding the wheat.
I certainly don't have time to read the entire web, nor to read and evaluate every ebook that pops up. Seems to me the issue is how do we manage/find/evaluate what to read and avoid the garbage that can be thrown out there by every wanna-be author and publishing house such that we don't waste our time?
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Wait...are you actually suggesting that it is a bad thing that you have to make up your own mind on what is good and what is bad? If not, I apologize, but it certainly come across that way to me.