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Originally Posted by DNSB
For most people, you read the information on the bookstore's page? You wait for someone to post that they downloaded the book and ran into issues using calibre with it? You download a sample and take a look at it?
For other people, you simply shake your head and pass on by.
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Yes, all of that. Sometimes obvious from the online sample too. Amazon usually indicates which models are compatible (no eink is bad) and if text-to-speech (no can mean some sort of scanned / image content).
There are also reviews (which may be lies, or for a different edition / format / language), which might indicate usability issues such as fixed layout or columns, or terrible TOC/naviagtion (issue for large reference works, bibles etc) or abysmal proofing (OCR or just poor).