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Originally Posted by rdjack21
Agree with this.. Lets be honest Amazon just does online book browsing and finding much better than anyone else.
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The only site I can recall that was as good as Amazon-and better IMO for ebooks-was Fictionwise. I had hopes for B&N when they bought FW but apparently they bought it to kill off the competition rather than learn how to improve their site. The only area in which I disliked FW's site was how they sorted by ratings. I would have preferred a book with fewer than some arbitrary number of ratings (at least 10, maybe 25) to be shown as unrated. Far too often I looked for 'excellent' books and had to page thru dozens that had only 1 rating. Sure, it was excellent-but how reliable is a single rating?
Other than that slight quibble I liked it better than Amazon. For ebooks, of course. I do find Amazon interesting & their recommendations are sometimes good. But their searches are horrible. Not that it doesn't find what you want but that it pulls in so much garbage. As an example I searched for McKevitt (author of the Savannah Reid mysteries). The 4th item listed was the movie 'Bullseye' starring Michael Caine & Roger Moore. I even checked the list of supporting actors-not a McKevitt among them. Stupid. But it's easy to ignore so really just a minor complaint.