Comments on: Seattle Shapes Book Buys http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/03/seattle-shapes-book-buys/ Memoirs of a Ravenous Reader Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rantsandreads http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/03/seattle-shapes-book-buys/comment-page-1/#comment-27 rantsandreads Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:42:40 +0000 http://devourerofbooks.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-27 I feel the same way you do, about having to hold the book in your band before just buying blindly on Amazon. I mainly go to Amazon because of the prices. I can usually find the book I want much cheaper than at a chain-bookstore, and that even includes the shipping fees. Plus I like getting packages in the mail. Although, I recently try to buy books from library book stores, because I can usually find interesting books, more a quarter of the price and support local libraries. It is pretty interesting how much of an influence Starbucks and Amazon are for readers, and even music lovers. Amazon is pretty much an online Costco. You know, when you write that "These non-traditional book-sellers show that reading is not going to disappear any time soon, but they somehow seem to lessen the experience." It just makes me think about the quality of books being published at the rate that they are. All I see now are books that mimic Sex and the City of women trying to find love in the big city. I'm glad people are reading, and I don't want to impose my reading tastes on the general public, but I do wish that more thought went into the books being published now. I feel the same way you do, about having to hold the book in your band before just buying blindly on Amazon. I mainly go to Amazon because of the prices. I can usually find the book I want much cheaper than at a chain-bookstore, and that even includes the shipping fees. Plus I like getting packages in the mail.

Although, I recently try to buy books from library book stores, because I can usually find interesting books, more a quarter of the price and support local libraries.

It is pretty interesting how much of an influence Starbucks and Amazon are for readers, and even music lovers. Amazon is pretty much an online Costco.

You know, when you write that “These non-traditional book-sellers show that reading is not going to disappear any time soon, but they somehow seem to lessen the experience.” It just makes me think about the quality of books being published at the rate that they are. All I see now are books that mimic Sex and the City of women trying to find love in the big city. I’m glad people are reading, and I don’t want to impose my reading tastes on the general public, but I do wish that more thought went into the books being published now.

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