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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
HOWEVER, you only get to browse what the bricks and mortar store HAS in STOCK. You don't get to order 5 into the store and then pick and choose. Since Amazon has a much larger stock than most brick stores, you can't really apply a comparison. If this person had access to all those books at a brick store, he could have done what you suggested. Instead, he took advantage of Amazon's larger inventory--and browsed and returned. Not exactly apples to apples.
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I don't expect the comparison to be exact. But it's close enough, I think for pointing out that the behavior is assumed by Amazon to be nefarious, when it's entirely possible that it isn't.
It should be entirely possible for Amazon to allow people to "check out" a book to browse. If the library can do it for three weeks, Amazon could do it for the 15 or 20 minutes it would take to see if a book fit your needs.