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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Browsing Amazon for books is like browsing wikipedia for some knowledge. You find your first book and then go to completely different directions every time. I can spend hours browsing wikipedia to the point where I forget what I was looking for in the first place. But you can get gems on both sites doing this.
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I find wikipedia's style stunting to the seriously scholarly aspects of its knowledge. The writing and the explanations for scientific or literate knowledge seem obscure to me. Wiki doesn't explain everything equally well IMHO.
Amazon reviews are okay, but not gasp inducingly helpful.