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Is it me, or is Amazon getting more difficult to navigate? The page addresses are so obscure, and the search engine so glitchy (still!) that unless you save a link to a page or its URL, you risk never finding it again. For example, click on this godawful long address resulting from a search I can't recall. If you've the patience to scroll way down the page, through ads, through some customer's reviews (including one by self-styled freelancer "InvisibleGirl", who can't spell 'lesser-known', a lessor being a person who leases out property to a lessee) eventually some interesting resources for writers appear.
Two on working and earning a living as a writer are identical, but contain a great list of basic resources. Some of the books appear in the third article with interesting commentary by a beginner. Following the articles are three Listmanias. Skip the middle one. The last useful section on this looooong page is "Look for similar books by subject:" It suggests categories and subjects on which to search. The searches could lead you to more buried treasure in the Amazon.
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Two on working and earning a living as a writer are identical, but contain a great list of basic resources. Some of the books appear in the third article with interesting commentary by a beginner. Following the articles are three Listmanias. Skip the middle one. The last useful section on this looooong page is "Look for similar books by subject:" It suggests categories and subjects on which to search. The searches could lead you to more buried treasure in the Amazon.
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posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 4:07 PM
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Amazon has way too much information that is not actually useful. I do so much shopping there that I've more or less developed blinders to most of what gets presented. Looking at the URL is useless -- I either bookmark stuff, or more frequently, put something on my wish list if I want to find it later.
The Listmania and "so you'd like to..." articles are worthless to me, mostly consisting of "so you'd like to see my DVD collection." No I wouldn't. Who the hell are you?
The one thing I do get some use out of is the "Page you Made" feature, which shows you similar items to what you've looked at. Of course, it is just a pitch, but it's kind of akin to finding a title you hadn't heard of while browsing physical bookshelves.
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