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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: A Cantankerous Curmudgeon Ponders ...
Date: 23 Jan 2025 00:05:54 -0000
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Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Do what you feel most comfortable with of course. For me (only!), I 
>would only feel comfortable ranking "No Award" over stuff I'd actually 
>read, because to me (only!), putting "No Award" above something says 
>that the stuff below it was unworthy of winning.

I feel the same way, which is why I go out of my way to read as many of
the literary entries as possible.  That was problematic the last time
around as some of them were in Chinese and either were not translated
openly or had what seemed to be an extremely poor translation... and
one of them was out of print.

I am willing to put "No Award" in front of an unavailable book, however,
because I don't think any unavailable book should get an award.

>I've never voted - do you have to rank everything that is nominated?

No.  I never vote in any of the media categories myself since I have
seldom seen more than one or two of the nominees.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."