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I share the OP's frustration with browsing online. Even if a physical store/library had a lot of books, it would still be fairly quick to walk past and see where one author ends and the next begins.

When scrolling through online store listings alphabetically, I wish that if there are numerous editions of the same book there would be only one title listing and description. Then if you were interested in that book, you could click a link to see all available editions.

I also wish online stores and libraries would have a "sort in series order" option. Overdrive has a "release date" sort option but clicking this does not always result in series order. I suppose "release date" means the date of the the specific edition the library owns, not the date the title was originally published.

My dream list for alphabetical-by-author browsing would be sort of a tree view - you could get an alphabetical list of authors, and beside the author's name there would be a brief description such as "20th century American author of" followed by a list of the types of book the author wrote (general fiction, mystery, sci-fi, whatever). Once you selected the author, you would then get a list of any non-series books and a list of series which would then have their own sub-lists of specific titles, which could be sorted in series order.