I’ve mostly stopped buying new books directly from Amazon because they sometimes seem to send crappy quality printed-on-demand copies, and I have no easy way of predicting if I’ll get one of those beforehand. (Sadly much of the book industry is moving this direction even if you buy directly. For example, the past few years of Springer math books are all terrible printing quality.)

I’m mad that they now hide book reviews that aren’t from “verified purchasers” unless you spend several clicks hunting for them.

It’s really unfortunate that there’s no independent page for book reviews with a big enough community to be remotely comprehensive.