09-13-2024, 05:48 PM | #1 |
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Why cant Amazon categorise books better?
I know its probably down to the Authors/ publishers, and probably lots of them wack on as many categories as possible to a book, but I find it really, really annoying when browsing a category to find loads of unrelated books being listed in it.
A lot of times I wont have a particular book in mind for my next read but I will have an idea what genre I want, so I will look that genre up on Amazon only to be met by loads of entries that have nothing to do with that category. Here's a few of the books listed when I was searching for a new horror book to read - SJ Parris - Treachery, a very good book that I've actually read, but definitely not horror! Dan Brown the lost Symbol - again certainly wouldnt class this as horror?? The Lord of the rings Does anyone else find this and do you find it as annoying as I do? Does anyone know of an effective way of searching Amazon? Or do you perhaps use something like good reads to find your next book then look it up on Amazon? |
09-13-2024, 06:10 PM | #2 |
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If you think other stores give a bit better results, you can search there, then do a general web search on exact titles and authors and an amazon page for the book will probably come up. Same for searching non-store sites.
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09-13-2024, 06:13 PM | #3 |
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That might be an idea. Though it's mainly a problem when I don't know what I want but just want to browse a genre, perhaps Amazon are just a victim of their own success and their stores becoming a bit unwieldy
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Publishers will list any and every genre available just to increase the marketing of their books. |
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