Tips For Knowing What To Read

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Let's face it - when you spend good money on a book, take the time to read it, and find that you hate the book, it can be pretty frustrating! In fact, many people run into the same problem with movies; but a movie ticket or DVD rental costs less than a hardcover book, and a movie is much shorter! The biggest problem is, quite frankly, everyone has very different tastes, so it is difficult to know you will like a book just because lots of others like it! In order to pick up good books with more regularity, you need to become educated. By "becoming educated," it means that it is important for you to know what your tastes are; and then, you need to know how to find books that are similar to your tastes.

Rating the books you have read is the most important step to understanding what you like to read; and if you use a five-star system to rate your books, you can easily transfer these ratings online. You can then start to get suggestions for new books by taking these ratings and plugging them into Amazon, and by signing up for Goodreads and doing the same thing on there. This will go a long way in helping you to find books you will actually like, even if rating these books just seems like "something extra to do."

Once you sign up for Goodreads, you should also begin to pay attention to others who have given high ratings to books that you liked yourself. Once you start finding people who like the books you like, look at their other books and see if your tastes are still consistent with theirs. In this way, you can make new friends on Goodreads who have tastes similar to yours, but who have read books that you have maybe not read yourself! You will begin to find suggestions that are perfect for you as soon as you begin to rate the books you have read and transfer these ratings to Goodreads and Amazon. And best of all, these suggestions will become more and more accurate the longer you are using these sites!