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How do you browse for e-books?
Apr. 9th, 2022 06:36 pmRecently some of my colleagues mentioned they were going to try to do /r/fantasy's bingo, where you read 25 books from different authors fitting different themes over the course of a year. (Well, or five, but that's pretty straightforward.) And I was like...I read fast enough to do this if I committed, but I'm probably not going to commit, because I have all these e-books on my computer I haven't read. And the library left mask mandates in place for a long time and I'm not super interested in in-person browsing while those are still up. (Although they actually un-mandated them as of late February, I don't know if I was caught up on that, but that's my bad.)
And then I started looking into e-readers, because what if they're actually less eye-strainy and more portable than laptops? So long story short, I'm getting an e-reader soon. It might be a terrible idea, it might be a sunk-cost fallacy, it might still be impossible with migraines, but oh well! That's not what I need recommendations on.
What I need recommendations on is, if you're not walking up and down the aisles and maybe sometimes skimming the last page even though it won't make sense to get a feel for tone, how do you find new-to-you e-books of interest? There's a lot of new speculative stuff I can sort of tell won't be to my taste, and that's fine, I'd rather find a new author I love and devour a whole series by them than complete a bingo with "eating my vegetables" stuff. But I'm obviously years behind the curve here, so...advice?
(I may also do a list of "here's recent-ish stuff I enjoyed, here's stuff I tried and didn't like," in case that's useful. Are any of the review aggregators good for building predictions based on both those sets?)
And then I started looking into e-readers, because what if they're actually less eye-strainy and more portable than laptops? So long story short, I'm getting an e-reader soon. It might be a terrible idea, it might be a sunk-cost fallacy, it might still be impossible with migraines, but oh well! That's not what I need recommendations on.
What I need recommendations on is, if you're not walking up and down the aisles and maybe sometimes skimming the last page even though it won't make sense to get a feel for tone, how do you find new-to-you e-books of interest? There's a lot of new speculative stuff I can sort of tell won't be to my taste, and that's fine, I'd rather find a new author I love and devour a whole series by them than complete a bingo with "eating my vegetables" stuff. But I'm obviously years behind the curve here, so...advice?
(I may also do a list of "here's recent-ish stuff I enjoyed, here's stuff I tried and didn't like," in case that's useful. Are any of the review aggregators good for building predictions based on both those sets?)
