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Originally Posted by sic
yvanleterrible,
I find it very interesting that you don't want to see suggested works.
Previously I started a thread asking people how they find the stuff they like.
How about adding social network kind of a thing where you would only listen to your friends suggestions? What if these friends of yours could send you the actual ebook they suggest -- because there's no DRM on it and they're explicitly allowed to do so.
But wait a sec... you wouldn't buy the book then, since you've already got it, would you? Would you?
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Very kind of you to offer books.
What I meant about "suggested works" is what publishers
want you to read. They have many reasons to offload their wares, many of which fall into profit shemes I have no interest in. A librarian might interest me in a new work or author, that I have no qualms about. Friends, coworkers, collegues or the guy I just met who violently shakes me by the shoulders, telling me "This is the greatest book there ever was", those I might trust. I base my choices on authors. I've been following many of them for years, reading whatever I could find of them that I could afford. But I do have a huge collection, more than I could read for the rest of my life. I have pleasure doing it, surfing on the cream of litterature. It's my only vice... well that and "gear lust" as one of our British friends would say. Oh! and the latest woodworking tool makes me drool.
