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The annoying thing is that this is basically all replicable online, except Amazon has apparently never even tried. Like, say I'm interested in 14th-15th centur
by TillE 5y ago
The annoying thing is that this is basically all replicable online, except Amazon has apparently never even tried.
Like, say I'm interested in 14th-15th century European history, maybe I have a couple good books already that I know. You could go to a university library and look them up on the shelves, and find a wealth of related books near them. Amazon won't even give you that level of browsing by library classification, using data which already exists. They have the same half-assed recommendation system which seems to have barely changed in the past 15-20 years.
- qbasic_forever 5y agoAmazon used to do a lot in that space, they had a big focus on customers creating and sharing lists of products. Your list was almost a blog post where you could write descriptions of each item and why they were there, order them, etc. I remember in the mid-2000s these lists were some of the best ways to find good books and products--there were always great "here's a roundup of the best technical books for programming language X/Y/Z" lists that I would seek out for example. It looks like there's much less focus on Amazon lists these days. Maybe they got rid of it entirely--it's hard to tell, all I can find are wish lists and such now.