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There's a couple of ways for me:
I browse bookstores in my area. Readings, Readers Feast, Borders and Minotaur are all good for me if I'm looking for something new as Angus & Robertson and Dymocks are usually not that great. I note down books/authors that look interesting after looking at covers and reading blurbs and then I'll look the author/title up on Amazon and read a few reviews.
Recommendations from family/friends are also a big one for me. My sister and mother are big readers and there is plenty of overlap in terms of tastes.
Only recently I joined this forum and it's the first time it's occurred to me that I could join a community of readers on the net and share information. OK, so I'm a bit slow there. But I've been reading recommendations and fitting them into the discovery process, and unlike reading a couple of reviews at Amazon I'm more likely to engage other users in discussion.
Sometimes people gift books to me from authors I've never read. This is my least favourite way of finding new authors because and I always wish the person giving me the gift would have just given me a book voucher instead unless that person knows me very well (mother/sister for example), but it's theoretically possible that I'll stumble upon something great.
Regards
Caleb
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