Flip Through A Book On Amazon
from the adding-more-features dept
Even as Amazon struggles a bit financially, they continue to add cool features. I'm amazed at how far behind most e-commerce sites are when it comes to personalization and other "ease-of-use" features of Amazon. The fact is, the process of shopping at Amazon.com is a lot easier than shopping at many other sites. Now, they've added a feature that will let you flip through a book. Apparently, a lot of customers have been requesting this sort of feature. Basically, they have pictures of the inside flaps, and a few pages in the book. This is especially useful for things like art books, to see the quality of the images. I wonder, though, how much of an expense it is for Amazon to scan and put all those images online.
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