>Sometimes a good review on Amazon sufficiently maps the ideas in the book and is all that is required.
How can you tell that without reading the book? The benefit of actually reading the thing is getting to synthesize the text and form your own ideas about what it all means.
Your method isn't unacceptable, but to use it as your main source of getting information from books is a bit...odd.
How can you tell that without reading the book? The benefit of actually reading the thing is getting to synthesize the text and form your own ideas about what it all means.
Your method isn't unacceptable, but to use it as your main source of getting information from books is a bit...odd.