One good feature of browsing paper books in libraries and bookshops was that a book could only be in one category, on one shelf.
It might seem like an advantage that ebooks can be un an unlimited number of categories at once, but in practice I think this hampers browsing because it is so abused by sellers and unregulated by ebook retailers.
Browsing by category at online retailers would be much improved for me if they only allowed each book to be in one category, and I think it would make the sellers think more carefully about which category to put it in.if they could only choose one.
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