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In principle yes, but it is often far less than ideal. Popular books often have only 2 copies, physical or digital, so you need to wait in the queue for a while
by pquki4 3y ago
In principle yes, but it is often far less than ideal. Popular books often have only 2 copies, physical or digital, so you need to wait in the queue for a while before you can get to read it. And that's only if your library carries the book, physical or digital -- there is often a long delay before you can find book in a bookstore and you can find it on the shelve. For various reasons the library might not want to purchase a book so you are on your own.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 3y agoIf you want to purchase a book on Amazon, then your best bet is to just only look for books sold and published by a reputable or at least known publisher. This is especially true for a lot of older books, which often have great editions in the midst of awful "print on demand" versions or new typesettings of old public domain version with awful quality and editing. (Then, even further, you might as well just cut out Amazon as the middleman if you're so inclined, or look for a local book store that has online purchases.)
- Turing_Machine 3y ago"Reputable publishers" put out garbage books all the time. Remember "Snooki"? Four books for sale on Amazon, all published by a "reputable publisher" (in fact, a division of Simon and Schuster). Of the current top 20 best sellers list: https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/ref=zg_bs_nav_books_0 https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/... I'd rate at least 15 as "garbage books" on sight. "Reputable publishers" are in business to make money. Some of them may put on airs of intellectual quality, but in fact if trash books make a buck, they will publish them. If high-quality books are unlikely to make a profit, they will not.
- cogman10 3y agoIf a book is popular, then you don't really have a problem with it being a fake or garbage right? The problem with amazon books is all the garbage books, but if you know you want "the wheel of time" then it's pretty easy to track that down on amazon or elsewhere. The only problem popularity presents is if it's somewhat underground. Then you might not stumble on it. Otherwise, just perusing the library should give you a lot of books which are reputable.
- MrVandemar 3y ago> Popular books often have only 2 copies, physical or digital, so you need to wait in the queue for a while before you can get to read it. Wait in the queue? What's fundamentally wrong with that? If something's worth reading, it's worth waiting for. Do we really have to have everything right now?
- Barrin92 3y ago>What's fundamentally wrong with that? Nothing of course, patience is a lost virtue and relevant to the topic of the thread, it's no accident that the only thing Amazon has gotten better at is shipping garbage faster. In fact when it comes to the current popular thing, just go for the unpopular thing that nobody else is interested in because chances are there's something more interesting in it anyway. There's also this community on reddit of people who on principle wait a few years before they play games. Time is literally the best filter. Anything that's popular and good will still be interesting in three years.
- sussmannbaka 3y agoIn the former case, congratulations, you now know which book to buy that’s likely not an AI scam.