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Originally Posted by RobFreundlich
I miss the experience of going to the book store or library, picking a section ("genre", for those of you who only ever shop online), and just looking around.
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I only very rarely browsed bookstores in my youth. I very early understood that to support my book reading addiction I do not have enough purchasing power or shelf space at home.
I had a membership in about 6 libraries here - all within walking distance.
When I visited the library my first steps always led to the "recently returned, waiting for re-shelving" stack of books. Very often I got my book quota for the week using only this pile. And the librarians very wisely did not hurry with the re-shelving of the books because they knew that many of the most popular titles would be borrowed within a few hours after being returned.
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Originally Posted by RobFreundlich
Is there any website that offers an experience like this? Amazon and the others are great if you know what you're looking for, but they suck for this kind of browsing.
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To discover and browse books nowadays I use various servers.
http://www.literature-map.com/
You enter a name of your favorite writer. The server displays a dynamic map or writer names. The more similar their books, the closer the writers are. The writer you have queried is in the middle of the screen. You should see a few names you recognize and you can then discover new authors with similar style / type of books to your favorite authors.
www.goodreads.com
look at the awards,
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2017 for the best books sorted by genere.
Rate some books and GoodReads will make suggestions depending on what you like to read. When you have already read the suggested book rate it too, so you get even more fine-tuned recommendations. When you find an interesting books you can see what other people say about it, and what other people that like this one book also like.