Da’s Entropy

I have been reading quite a bit since I finished my final exams last month, mainly on investment and trading. I got most of the books from the Toronto Public Library rather than buying them.

To select books, I mainly rely on reviews on amazon. In general, I will look for books with a overall rating above 4 stars and some good reviews, then happily check them out from the library. However, after finishing a few books, I found that this selection method is quite problematic. Many people just blindly give out reviews and some books get much better rating than it really is. Seems the wisdom of crowd does not happen here.

So how do I evaluate a book now? Luckily amazon allows us to read the most helpful reviews. Read the first page of the “Most Helpful Reviews” and get an average of those ratings — I found it a much better guide than the simplistic overall rating.