To Cut or Not To Cut?

[firstfrost]

My book reviews, in general, are longish. It seems moderately common to put the entirety of such things behind a lj-cut, presumably to be polite, and I've done that in the past, too.

On the other hand, I'd rather just read everything in one friends view and not have to follow a bunch of links, so I end up deciding not to cut, more often than not. Is this differently irritating, to have a big long chunk of text that you have to read or skip? (but really, why does anyone read live journals at all if they don't want to read the text?)

Comments

[merastra.livejournal.com]

I do cuts because I have a lot of disparate groups in my friends list and have noticed that I appreciate the cuts when I'm reading. I don't have a lot of time to read so I scroll quickly through to get a sense of what happened since last I looked and that's easier if more fits per page. Then I open cuts in a separate window.