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Originally Posted by azayn
Ok for those of you who are able to navigate the self-published landscape, how are you finding books? Is it through Goodreads, blogs, recommendations from friends, or some other medium? I ask because I have honestly no idea where to begin.
When I browse self-published books on Amazon, the vast majority seems to be romance which I have no interest in. Not to mention the shill reviews all over Amazon. Often self-published books are lumped together as one category despite the fact they span a wide range of genres.
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For Amazon freebies, I never browse on Amazon directly. I usually hit
FreeReadFeed first. There you can filter on genre, length of book, recency and other aspects. That way you can (as I do) avoid romance and erotica like the plague. Of course there are authors in those genres who set their stuff on Mars (or somesuch) and thus feel it qualifies as SF, for example... but if you find that theres a lot of cross genre tagging, you can quickly ignore those.
There's also other places to get books. Feedbooks, Manybooks, Baen Free Library, Gutenberg are just a few.