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Arguably, it devalues this list of books because it calls into question its credibility and its author's seriousness.
by ownlife 5mo ago
Arguably, it devalues this list of books because it calls into question its credibility and its author's seriousness.
- johngossman 5mo agoWhile I generally do not trust information from "advertisements", in this case I don't see how this is any worse than including a list of sources in the bibliography. What this could be is an attempt to use those other books to sell the author's through some reflected glory (or SEO-fu) but in that case, the author is still incentivized to recommend good books.
- Insanity 5mo agoIf this was a pure advertising piece, I might agree. In this case, it's more "hey I wrote a book on this, these are other books that are great". That's kinda different at least in my mind.
- cheaprentalyeti 5mo agoYou mean you've _never_ bought a book for its bibliography?