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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 6, 2018 22:27:23 GMT
When you're hankering for a new book to read do you check your BookBub email or scroll over to their site?
Do you check Goodreads to see what your friends are recommending?
Do you never have to search because you always have a neverending list of BTBR? (Books To Be Read)
Do you go to amazon and do a search?
Do you search google for a new book?
Do you check your amazon promo emails?
Do you check out book sigs on Kboards/Writer's Sanctum?
For me, I either already have a book in mind that I just heard about and have to have, so I go and buy it. Or I'll go to amazon and search, if I don't have anything specific in mind. One time I actually responded to an amazon email because the book had the cutest cover ever, and then went right to amazon and purchased it. But usually that doesn't happen.
How do you book shop?
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Post by corabuhlert on Nov 7, 2018 6:02:45 GMT
For me, it's a mix of trusted book reviewers and blogs, word of mouth from online pals (my offline friends mostly don't read the same genres) and books I run across on the Speculative Fiction Showcase and the Indie Crime Scene that sound interesting.
I use BookBub or similar newsletters for market research, but I don't find all that many useful recommendations therein. What I do find are books for the new release round-ups at the Spec Fic Showcase and Indie Crime Scene. I do click on signatures at KBoards/Writer Sanctum and have found some books/authors I really like, but often it's just to check out whether author x has a new book out, so I can include it in the new release round-ups.
Sometimes, I also pick up books while randomly browsing brick and mortar bookshops, but mostly the books I buy there are books I've heard about before, but was on the fence about.
I used to find quite a few books via Amazon's recommendation e-mails and the also-boughts, but the recommendation e-mails have been getting steadily worse (no, I don't read East Friesian mysteries. So why do you keep recommending them to me?) and the also-boughts seem to be history.
Of course, I've also got a huge pile of unread books, so it's not as if I will run out of reading material anytime soon.
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Post by prolificwriter on Nov 7, 2018 7:11:39 GMT
Not really sure? I might see it in a bookstore or on Amazon and then look at the reviews. There was a time when I was really into LGBT fantasy. There was a website I had bookmarked on my old iPad which I sadly lost. It was a website that listed all fantasy/sci-fi novels that featured LGBT characters. I found a few favorite authors that way. If anyone has any recommendations for urban fantasy or fantasy novels with LGBT characters with minimal to no romance, I’m all ears!  |
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Post by writeway on Nov 7, 2018 19:41:51 GMT
Facebook is how I find books. If I browse it's on retailers outside of Amazon. Amazon is horrible and I no longer browse on there unless I am looking for movies. To find books I like there is impossible unless I search by the author's name. If not for FB I wouldn't know about any new books.
I get Bookbub as well but admittedly I don't always open the mailing unless I have a promotion or to see if my ad is being shown. *snickers*
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Post by corabuhlert on Nov 8, 2018 4:57:41 GMT
Not really sure? I might see it in a bookstore or on Amazon and then look at the reviews. There was a time when I was really into LGBT fantasy. There was a website I had bookmarked on my old iPad which I sadly lost. It was a website that listed all fantasy/sci-fi novels that featured LGBT characters. I found a few favorite authors that way. If anyone has any recommendations for urban fantasy or fantasy novels with LGBT characters with minimal to no romance, I’m all ears! Liz Bourke reviews a lot of LGBT books for her Sleeps With Monsters column at Tor.com, so that would be a good resource.
Bogi Takacs also talks about LGBT books with a focus on the T.
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Post by prolificwriter on Nov 8, 2018 6:18:43 GMT
Liz Bourke reviews a lot of LGBT books for her Sleeps With Monsters column at Tor.com, so that would be a good resource. Bogi Takacs also talks about LGBT books with a focus on the T.
Thank you! I’ll check those out! I did find one of the websites I used back in the day: Gay Fiction Booklist That Doesn’t SuckIt’s not the one I was thinking of, and while I don’t agree with all of his reviews (he didn’t care for one of the books I really liked), it was still super useful in finding books to read. |
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Post by dormouse on Nov 10, 2018 10:44:26 GMT
I could probably spend the rest of my life reading the books I already have and still never get to the end. Despite that, I buy 20+ books a week. I'm also given books. I use reviews that I come across & personal recommendations. I pay attention to books mentioned in passing if I haven't read them. Also stuff I come across that has something of interest. I usually check also boughts. I use google when I'm looking for something fairly specific; I will also check the reviews of any books that come up (& also boughts etc) for mentions of other books; this is mostly for non-fiction. If I'm staying somewhere, or in a pub or coffee shop with a collection of books, I'll browse through them - have discovered several writers like that. Also Bookbub & other collections of offers when I see them. Good for the occasional surprise, offers on authors I like and to see what people are trying to flog I only browse the books I already have and physical bookshops. I never look at genre or top 100 lists etc Never use books in sigs, except, very occasionally, to use the look inside to check the quality of the writing  Only use Goodreads to check reviews when I might already be interested in a book. When I want a new book to read, I only check my library. Probably get through 10+ books a week. |
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