Aren't there just plain too many books by now to browse? And the few browsable places are carrying fewer and fewer of them. (And I have complained before about

Aren't there just plain too many books by now to browse? And the few browsable places are carrying fewer and fewer of them. (And I have complained before about online stores and library catalogs not being very browsable yet.) And so I switched completely to third party recommendations. Sometimes very tenuous - but still better than other methods. I keep a deep file of notes such as "police in exotic places", "commando/secret agent/police stories from Egypt" - or "time travel, magic and bureaucracy". In parallel, I keep notes on authors' writing style. I can then favor the ones I usually like and push down the list the ones that get on my nerves. The cover is now irrelevant. - But perhaps will come back in some variant when catalogs become browsable again. Perhaps the new format will allow several images rather than just one. Perhaps will completely separate title and author from the cover? Will allow more than author and story blurbs? How will the cover evolve for the online-first world?