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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Ah, the old "online bookstores have too many books to find anything" myth.
Thing is, good online stores have filtering. By book type, genre, sub-genre, and even review ratings. They even let you filter all but the new releases or sort by popularity or price.
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Online, I can do the same thing with two clicks: "fiction" and "science fiction" and suddenly 37.5 million titles becomes just 320,000. Click on, say, "Kindle edition" and it's cut down some more. I pick "Space Opera" and "New" and I'm looking at all the new ebooks I might actually be interested in, not a politician's ghost-written memoir/screed or the latest book mill product or tough guy shoot-em up.
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The last time I clicked on New / Science Fiction & Fantasy at Amazon...95% of the books are about two animal/men who want to get it on with a single female from Earth...
Filters are only as good as the tags that the author/publisher puts in there...and recommendations...well that's a whole 'nother topic!
BTW, I have been writing to Amazon several times over the last 1.5 years to get them to fix their "advanced search" function. It is STILL broken. When you enter the categories you wish to search (ie SF&F/New/Printed Books/ Published this month) and click search - you get a list as you would expect...but as soon as you click the "next page" the filter for printed books disappears. It appears that Amazon is intentionally throwing all of their extra Kindle/ebook product at you regardless of your desires. It seriously does take alot longer to browse through 4000 books online than to walk through my local B&M store while my wife is at the hair dresser next door...