Isn't this easily solved by reading part of the book and then deciding whether you like it enough to continue? The typical novel takes no longer than watching

Isn't this easily solved by reading part of the book and then deciding whether you like it enough to continue? The typical novel takes no longer than watching a season of a serialized TV show... and because it is written as a coherent whole rather than piecemeal, it is much less likely than a TV show to suffer from a bad ending that undermines everything that came before it.