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> In an ideal world, the reading experience of a Kindle book is the same as the physical book. So someone might argue that ratings should be aggregated across a
by WoodenChair 6y ago
> In an ideal world, the reading experience of a Kindle book is the same as the physical book. So someone might argue that ratings should be aggregated across all version of the product. Would you expect different ratings for hardcover/paperback versions of books? Probably not, at least assuming people review the content of the book, not its appearance.
Right, the issue though is that there is a much larger gulf between the eBook and print book than there is between the paperback and hardcover. And the delivery mechanism can greatly affect your enjoyment of the book. It's about more than just appearance. Source code in particular, does not often work well on a Kindle's tiny screen.
- ghaff 6y agoAlthough maybe it does if you read it on a full-size tablet. In general, I mostly avoid buying books I know aren't 95% text in Kindle format unless they're very cheap or are from a known publisher for things like guidebooks. They can work well but it's definitely hit or miss. (I also just don't like ebooks for certain types of references where I want to stick post-its etc.)
- ThePadawan 6y agoI personally fully agree! But I imagine a PM at Amazon was presented with the question "Should ratings of all versions of books be merged?". Unless they really really cared (or personally had experienced dramatic differences between versions of books before), they probably said "Yeah sure". (I'm also biased a bit in that I assume that implementing this more fine-grained would cost more than $0).