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Originally Posted by scveteran
Amazon already gives you a sample chapter. That should be enough.
I would also point out that Amazon is a business and as such are not going to work like your local library.
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Would that be like the movie previews you see? How many times have you seen an exciting preview, only to be disappointed by the full movie?
As far as that goes, how many times have you read the excerpt at the front of some books, only to find that it presented the only interesting part of the book?
If the sample were random, then I'd tend to agree-but AFAIK they're chosen by Amazon. They *might* not be chosen to present the most interesting part of the book, but they also might be-as long as Amazon chooses them, you don't really know.
I don't expect Amazon to work like my library, but I would appreciate it if they'd work like my bookstore. The bookstore *will* object if I spend an hour or two reading a book-but they have no objection if I spend 15 minutes flipping thru it, spot reading more than one selection.