Why I Don't Read Samplers
Samplers can be a gift or a curse depending on how you look at it. For me, they've always been a curse! It all goes back to the days where I would read the extra sneak peek into the next book in the back of book I just finished. I'd be reading it and getting really into it, then I turned the page and noting! Don't get me wrong, I totally see the point of samplers. Especially when it comes to attracting new readers and enticing old ones!
But for the reader that is me, I think samplers are the devil!
Samplers basically do what they are supposed to do, but I don't like them! Lol! I don't like having the story cut off and I think well I just wasted that time reading something I can't finish. When I could've been starting my next full length read. And odds are that if I decided to read the sampler, we're months away from the release and I will have a loooooooong time until I get to read the actual book. So I will have to re-read whatever it is I just read. And when you have a very, very overwhelming TBR pile that you would like to, in essence, finish before you die, you realize you can't waste your times on books you aren't enjoying, so you DNF it and you also don't really want to waste your time on a sample of a book you're going to read eventually anyway. So that's basically why I don't read samplers, but again, I totally totally understand their purpose!
So what about you guys, do you read samplers? Do you love or hate them?
