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Originally Posted by cfrizz
And as for the comment of Amazon has tons of drivel, by who's definition? One person's drivel is another person's favorite kind of book to read! Enough with the blanket statements.
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I was perhaps being a bit harsh with that statement I maybe would have been better off saying Amazon has a lot of low quality content to wade through in order to find the gems, let me use an example -
I do like a good space opera novel, with that you have certain (not unreasonable I think) expectations, it's set in space at least partly
and of a certain length, I wouldn't think you are looking for a 150 - 250 page novel if you're looking at space opera's, generally they are of a longer length but when I used Amazon a good 25-40% ish (at a guess) results that came up were sub 300 pages and quite often way below that, and then it was also flooded with stuff like date night on so and so station, date night on a different station etc etc
The horror genre was another one I found particularly bad on Amazon, I do like a good ghost horror story, I wouldn't expect them to be particularly long maybe somewhere between upper 200's to maybe 400's, but when I used to try and find them on Amazon the amount of cut and paste haunted house books I had to wade through to find the gems was daunting, the amount of slight variations I saw of 'The X family have found their dream home until some of them realise not all is right, but one of them is blissfully unaware' was never-ending
Now obviously one persons drivel maybe anothers delight, it comes down to personal likes/ dislikes but from my experience there was a
lot of low quality content on Amazon - not to say there wasn't good quality stuff as well, there was, but I was finding rooting it out from the rest was getting more and more difficult!