Returning books you're not happy with

When I went to purchase a book once by Anne Rice as A. N. Roquelaure, the cashier tried to talk me out of buying it.

"Well , if you take it home and find that it was not what you were expecting ,bring it back."

I took it home,read a few chapters and realized it was not what I thought, but my roommate wanted to read it so I gave it to her.If my roommate had not wanted it , then I would have taken it back somewhat sheepishly to the store.



But I have never returned a book, thrown them away,lost,donated or regifted, yes.

benbradley said:

Did you post reviews saying this? I hope so. Having the previews "cleanly edited" where the rest is not sure smells like a bait-and-switch, like the authors KNEW what they were supposed to do, but didn't do it for the whole book.

"Horrible, nearly unreadable formatting" can honestly be called an e-book defect. Please post reviews of those too, with only those four words if nothing else.

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I've started posting Amazon reviews in the last year, especially if I run across a book with poor formatting. I wish that Amazon would allow users to sort reviews by edition, because I've often spent a lot of time reading through reviews trying to find mention of formatting issues on kindle editions.

I returned a secondhand book a few years ago because it had a page folded over and bound into the spine, rendering it less than readable. It was a palaver. This was a book available in the US but not here. I was so desperate to have it that I ordered it from the US, then had to send it all the way back, then had to argue with Alibris because they refunded me the cost of the book but not the cost of returning it, then find another copy...and then by the time I'd done that, the rotten book appeared on shelves over here.