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Absolutely, agree with you. And it should apply to adult entertainment too. When first I got Kindle, I really loved reading random books for free (Amazon Prime
by amerkhalid 8y ago
Absolutely, agree with you. And it should apply to adult entertainment too.
When first I got Kindle, I really loved reading random books for free (Amazon Prime books). But then it got so much noise that now I can pretty much guarantee that if a book is available for free, it is worthless. My new rule is if I am not willing to pay for a book, I am not going to waste my time reading it.
- sireat 8y agoThe problem is that even paid books can be horrible. I am a subscriber to Bookbub list which sends out e-mails to daily Amazon sales (0.00 to 1.99) on e-books of your chosen category. Quality wise it does not seem to matter on the price.
- pmoriarty 8y ago"I can pretty much guarantee that if a book is available for free, it is worthless." That is so, so false. There are many wonderful, amazing books on Project Gutenberg and Librivox, and they're all absolutely free. Sure, they're far outnumbered by garbage, but that's true even of books you have to pay for at other sites. You have to know how to look. Find reviews and recommendations (those do exist for free, public domain books). Especially with older books, word eventually gets around which are the "classics", and those usually have a pretty good chance of being worth reading, possibly even of being great. With experience you get a sense for which kinds of books you tend to like so can have a good chance of spotting an interesting book just from reading a synopsis or sometimes even just a title.
- amerkhalid 8y agoOk I am sorry, I overly-generalized. Yes, there are many free books which are great. My initial Kindle paid for itself when I read 10s of free classics.