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Originally Posted by tompe
The old methods does not scale well when we get a big infusion of books that have not passed a gatekeeper. That is why I ignore nearly all books that have not passed a publisher.
That is not true at all. You have to read maybe 100 pages to be able to tell if it is a good book you want to read or just an OK book that was a waste if time to read since you then will read one less good book.
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No,
you have to read maybe 100 pages.
I can usually discern my own tastes within a page or at most a chapter. I waste less time now looking at books than I did beforehand, because I need that time to read. Physical books I would give 50 pages before I got my reader, but now they get 1 page, maybe a few more. I don't have time to waste, and so I don't waste it any longer.
I have very little I can say about someone who is unwilling to try new things and must have the old publishing industry as a kind of taste-tester for him or her. Do you have this same attitude with music also? With films and radio and all culture? About 90% of my cultural intake is from independent publishers of all kinds, and I would hate to think what I'd have missed out on if I'd approached my cultural intake with the kind of passive attitude with which you approach yours.