Nancy Pearl, a former librarian of the enviable Seattle Public Library library, and onetime regular contributor to N.P.R., once suggested that one is obligated to read fifty pages into a book before deciding whether it is worth further effort; until, that is, one reaches the age of fifty. After that, one may deduct one page per birthday, so that at age 75, for instance, one is obligated to read only 25 pages, and so forth. By inference from her salubrious formula, if we live long enough we are truly entitled to judge a book by its cover. Long live Nancy Pearl!
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