How to select a good book
While to topic seem to be very simple, the concept of selecting best book for your need is always difficult. Since the book market is too crowded, there are thousands and millions of books available for any reader in any subject. This makes the process of selecting a good book complicated. Users always wonder how to select a good book.
With the digital era, concepts like iBooks has radically changed the way people write and read books. This has added more problems by bringing in more books. It is any one’s assumption that number of books that might emerge in future is going to increase drastically high. So, how to select a good book? What are the parameters you will have to see when selection a book? In this article we have highlighted a simple process which will help you analyze and understand a book before making the purchase.
The tool that we will use to analyze the quality of books is amazon.com
Why Amazon?
There are multiple reasons for this. But the two prime reasons are:
1) Amazon has everything. Almost all books in the universe are being sold by Amazon. Amazon is considered as a huge book repository.
2) Customer reviews are true. Most of the reviews available in the internet are biased. Because of the fact that users who recommend a book uses their affiliate link and will get commission when you make a purchase.
Getting started:
1) Make sure you have the full name of the book. Type in the book in Amazon.com’s search and you will be in Amazon’s product page.
2) In the product page, you will see number of people who has reviewed the product. People reviewed products in Amazon are the ones who have actually purchased and read the book.
3) Now scroll down to the customer review section.
4) If there are not more reviews, you should understand that only few or no customers have bought this book. This means the book might be new or not famous or so bad in quality. Based on this you might want to select.
5) If the book has a raving review with very less negative reviews, you can straight away make the purchase. If so many people have admired the book, then it must be definitely a great book.
6) If the reviews are partially good and partially bad, click the 1 start section where you can see only negative reviews.
7) Read through that negative reviews and understand the problem of the book. If it is something that you can live with it, go ahead and purchase or you can neglect the book.
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