'); document.write('SteveD: Hard cider is a bit trickier to home-brew than beer. With more fermentable sugars, you have to be ex...'); document.write('
'); document.write('SteveD: Well, a dog\'s got personality, and personality goes a long way...'); document.write('
'); document.write('SteveD: Sometimes there are blurbs on the Kindle store pages. But Philo\'s comment raises another question--...'); document.write('
'); document.write('Philo: When we all move to ebooks (kindle, nook, etc.), what are blurbs?'); document.write('
'); document.write('71: I don\'t often put any stock in book cover blurbs, and often don\'t read them until I\'m well into t...'); document.write('
'); document.write('Gwydion: Oh, and then I\'ll also read a few random sentences from inside the book, just enough to get a sense...'); document.write('
'); document.write('Gwydion: Read them all the time, and they totally influence whether I\'ll buy the book. I don\'t exactly "re...'); document.write('
'); document.write('Aaron Boyden: Not very; blurbs are often either taken out of context from published comments, given by personal fr...'); document.write('

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