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I sincerely doubt that the inside pages of books are a major factor in any buying decision.
by IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
I sincerely doubt that the inside pages of books are a major factor in any buying decision.
- iamben 6y agoCurious as to why you think that? It definitely affects my decision when buying non fiction - particularly if it's a book with a lot of photos.
- azalemeth 6y agoIt the factor in my decision for programming / scientific books: I have a PhD, am interested in many disparate things and therefore need to find texts at the right level for my current amount of understanding in the topic. This is surprisingly hard. Flicking through the pages is the best way to do it. I've never bought an e-Book with DRM. I never will. Occasionally I've downloaded PDFs of books I have the dead-tree version of but want to be able to search through. Most publishers really are terrible at moving into the 21st century. Online e-library lending restrictions are a gigantic pain in the arse, are massively over-engineered, and pointlessly exist to restrict information from those who are best placed to understand it.