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Originally Posted by LJJohnson
Repeat spotting is hard due, eg, to Charles River Editors pattern of TITLE A, TITLE B then TITLE A+B
Yes. but if you sort by publication date (may have to "narrow" by clicking on Kindle books on left side), you get about a 85% probability of selecting only new ones the first time. I generally pick the first one I think I have also, just to be sure...
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Being non-computer savvy, it seems to me that it would be easy for Amazon to let you know, on the search hits returns webpage, if you've bought a particular title or not. But it might not be. Of course, we know that it does let you know that on the book's dedicated webpage.
I'm thankful for that much, however. I frequently go to Christianbook.com's website. Even if I go to a book's dedicated webpage, I don't get the information about whether or not I've purchased the title. I've found it easiest to find out by clicking on "Buy Now" and see what message that I get. If I'm logged out, I have to log in. If I've already bought it, it will give me a message in red letters--impossible to miss--something to the effect, "you've already bought this, are you sure you wanna do it again?" So, that's an additional step (or two) to Amazon's. But, of course, I doubt (ha) that Christianbook.com has Amazon's IT budget to set things up better, either.
Also, if you're too slow about checking different titles, or otherwise are doing things on the site that require you to be logged in, Christianbook logs you out and forces you to log in again, even after no more than, it seems, about 5 minutes of being logged in. Annoying. Amazon, on the other hand, gives you a lot of time, before logging you out. That doesn't seem like it would be related to the respective stoutness of the IT budgets, however. I don't know why they give you such a short log in (without activity) window. There may be some third-party software, that I haven't run across yet, that I could use that would keep me logged in.