[lhoff]

I only read books where i have a recommendation. This can either from a conversation or just a mention in a Blog post or here on HN in a comment.

Its definitely not a 100% method but i feel like that the chance that the book is not well written is much lower when at least one person found it readable/enjoyable.

I have a Trello Site for that where i create a card for every book and write down or copy+paste the recomendation.

I also typically download the book from libgen first, take a quick look at it and then buy the book.