It Was the Best of Lines, It Was the Worst of Lines
This paper investigates Readers’ Advisory (RA), its past and present. Of particular interest is the first sentence of novels as a possible tool for RA Services. How well does the first sentence of a work of fiction represent a book’s appeal?
Authors
- Brian Quast
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- UNC Libraries
- Published
- 2026-04-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17615/cr3a-9f87
- Primary Topic
- Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00