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I tested the site a few days ago when it rolled out (and is now gone). I hate the look of it (very bland, hard to visually find the categories now that they don't stand out in orange and blue), but using it was dreadful.
I was searching for about 100 books, one after the other. I quickly realized that if you're highlighting the contents of the search box and going from right to left, the cursor ends over the drop-down menu next to the search box, and the activation of the drop-down menu would boot you out of the search dialog.
Other times, while I was typing in the search dialog, the page would boot me out while typing, I assume because some snippet of the page had loaded a little later than everything else.
I eventually had to just click-ctrl-A-ctrl-v-enter very, very fast to get any real searching done. I was in Firefox, so that might have been part of the problem (I'm presuming that Amazon optimizes for IE first), but it was a real disappointment because the site has always been easy to use before.
And as much as I like white-and-black modernity, I do think the new site looks dreadful. So there's that.
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