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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
No.........I'm like you on this one......the subject matter has to interest me, and the blurb is way more informative and reliable than recommendations by celebrities or other authors. I can usually tell with the first few pages if its a "keeper" for me.
I have found this boards recommendations on a particular book especially helpful and on the mark.
But thats just me.
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No, that's me too
plus I have some healthy little obsessions (mostly with history) and after some time you've pushed far and far by these obsessions
I mainly buy books by internet (nowadays it's more ebooks
) so that at least the checkout moment will stop me a bit more than the queue in the bookshop. Also, the moment I have a peak of my idiopatic dust allergy, so my favourite second-hands are a no-no if I want to be able to read afterwards
but usually, my purchasing of food- I mean,
books is a mix between archeology, hunting and puppy adoption.
I probably should mention here peer pressure and work, too, as a source of yet other books to read, but for work we also have libraries, so it's not
always a purchase.