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How to Interpret Our Ratings
| Rating | Explanation |
| 90+ | A book with tremendous insights, important new material, or an invaluable collection of information that will be of lasting value to the book's audience. The writing is also outstanding. |
| 86-89 | A book with important insights or new material, or that brings together important information. The writing is also above average. |
| 82-85 | A book that contains interesting information, but breaks no new ground and is not presented attractively. It may be that the book does have some important insights or information, but is poorly written or presented. |
| 75-81 | A book with some good information, but that is flawed in one or more ways that make it difficult to see past the mistakes. |
| 50-74 | A poor book that, while it may contain one or two useful nuggets of information, is worth neither your time nor your money. |
| 0-50 | A book that is, for lack of a better phrasing, just plain bad. Such books may suffer from glittering generalities or horrible production values, but in general books in this category should be avoided at all costs. |