I've never come across anyone else whose tastes exactly match mine, so I don't put all that much stock in blurbs. A blurb from an author whose blurbs are typically for books I do like will at cause me to at least consider the book, but if I see the blurb, I'm probably already considering the book. The blurbs are just one factor though. I don't choose books specifically because an author I like wrote a blurb for it.
At this point I don't consider blurbs much at all because seeing them requires seeing the book which mostly is not happening until after I've bought it. That's what I hate about not having any local bookstores that I'm willing to purchase books from. It is hard for me to choose new authors without a good bookstore to browse in. Browsing online just doesn't do it for me.
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Date: 2012-02-19 06:51 pm (UTC)At this point I don't consider blurbs much at all because seeing them requires seeing the book which mostly is not happening until after I've bought it. That's what I hate about not having any local bookstores that I'm willing to purchase books from. It is hard for me to choose new authors without a good bookstore to browse in. Browsing online just doesn't do it for me.