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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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.
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I really do not believe that you can read a couple of paragraphs and decide if the book is good or very good or if it is only OK. An OK book is also a book that fall within you tastes.
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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.
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I am waiting for better gatekeepers to appear to replace publishers. Independent publishers can have an OK reputation and can work as a filter. An independent publisher is not the same as a self publisher.