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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Really?
Because filtering "Science Fiction & Fantasy" & "Last 30 Days" on Amazon UK gives me 6,947 hits, 519 of which are 4 stars and above.
So reading the samples is out unless I've pre-selected them somehow.
And that's just the last 30 days, I've given up 
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That's the only filtering you do?
No sub-genre? Like, "Let's see what hard SF is new?" Or "what alternate histories are new?"
There are 21 categories under SF at the Kindle store.
Alternate history lists 6000 or so. Filter for the last 30 days and it comes down to 145.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_re...rt=review-rank
That is about a five minute scan for me.
Or, even in the bigger list: sort by release date and glance at the top few pages in the listing. If you are a regular to the site and not a first timer you'll soon see older titles. Or sort by average reader reviews. Then let your judgment take over. When Sturgeon said 90% of everything is crap he wasn't thinking indie titles. Just tradpub.
It is only as hard as you want it to be.
Back in the day, the local Borders--one of the bigger ones--carried over 50,000 titles. I could do a fly-by in ten-fifteen minutes to see if there was anything interesting because I did it every week or two. And because I wasn't wasting time looking at every book in the store or every book in the SF&F section.
6000 titles, for me, is at most a half hour worth of browsing. Which in itself is a pleasant diversion.