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A better search engine (esp for used books) is BookFinder: https://bookfinder.com https://bookfinder.com. Between it and Goodreads, which has better ratings an

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• simcop2387 4y ago
  That's not avoiding them entirely, but it does avoid their store front for discovery. GoodReads is owned wholly by Amazon.
• solardev 4y ago
  ...and aside from Goodreads (which is owned by Amazon), bookfinder is also hosted behind Amazon Cloudfront. No matter where you go and what you do, Amazon wins, lol. There's https://www.indiebound.org/ https://www.indiebound.org/ at least, which lets you search the inventory of local bookstores. I've also had good luck ordering used books from https://www.thriftbooks.com/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/ instead of Amazon.
• fernly 4y ago
  Bookfinder is hella useful but sometimes, especially for pre-ISBN books, https://www.addall.com/ https://www.addall.com/ has wider coverage.
• dhosek 4y ago
  I’ve been using bookfinder since it was mxbf.com There have been some long out of print hard to find books that I was able to find thanks to them (although in one case early in the site’s lifetime, I found a book I’d been searching for for over a decade and placed an order only to have the bookseller discover that they apparently had either sold the book, lost it or had it stolen). It’s my go-to for used books.