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I use it to wade through the masses.

Download 10 ebooks on a subject, scroll through, read a few excerpts, and the one that I actually start reading, I buy from amazon or a local bookstore and actually read it.

Many books look great, but once you start reading them, are total garbage. This is in the field of IT literature though, so books tend to be very hit or miss, and quickly outdated.



I've done that a lot especially with books on raising a child, education etc... Most books are bad, I don't want to pay until I know the book is good.




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