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Old 12-21-2009, 02:16 PM   #145
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Originally Posted by scveteran View Post
Amazon already gives you a sample chapter. That should be enough.
Not for some kinds of books. If you read back in the thread, you'll see I was talking about technical books. Amazon's choice of samples is simply the first bunch of pages, maybe encompasing the first whole chapter. That's certainly fine for fiction. Not so fine for history, where you would want to review the index. Not worth a damn for any decent science or finance book.

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I would also point out that Amazon is a business and as such are not going to work like your local library.
This is from a news item about the Nook: "When connected to the store's Wi-Fi network, you'll someday be able to browse full e-books on your Nook while in the store. However, this feature, too, has its limitations: it only works for up to an hour per title during any given 24-hour period." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5926649.shtml

In other words, B&N already plans to do what I suggest Amazon should do.
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