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Originally Posted by Atunah
I have completely given up browsing amazon. Years ago, I used to spend some time each week to browse at leisure with varying sorting and filtering. By genre, publication date to see what came out new, by besteller, when it went past top 100, by ratings, etc. There is so much miscategorizing going on now and so many shorts and novellas packed in the genre I like that I lost all my joy of browsing.
But, what now works for me better than ever is recs on goodreads. I never really liked the also boughts anyway as I don't really care what else someone bought. I care what else they liked. That is a big difference to me. And that is what they do on goodreads. Whatever they did there with the recs, on the site and on my kindle is spot on. Like say you loved a book and want more like it, you go to the book on goodreads and look at where it says "readers also enjoyed". Its on the top right.
And then there are the recs that I got using the goodreads connection on my kindle. Somehow works a bit differently. You get to pick the genres you are interested in and it uses your own ratings and others ratings to base the recs on. This is my "browsing" now.
I think Amazon search and listings have been ruined with keyword abuse.
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