[nextaccountic]

> This weekend my mom was complaining about having trouble finding anything actually good to read on Kindle Unlimited.

I don't understand this. Who goes to an online store to decide what to read? Rather than just buy what you wanted to buy.

I would expect that people were going to.. places where people talk about books. Like goodreads, or even some interesting thread on /r/books, or whatever. And then, well, after you decide what to read, you think about how you will obtain it. I think people have their priorities inverted.

And I think like that because the storefront doesn't have your best interest at heart. For them you're just a number on a bottom line.

[motoxpro]

Have you never gone to a bookstore in real life and just browsed? Not everything has to come from recommendation or reviews or research. It can just be pure exploration.

Its the same process online and offline: See an interesting cover/title, read the dust cover, skim a page to get the writing style, buy or dont buy.

Sure, you will get "more bad than good" but not everything needs to be efficient, and in the old days, the bookstore played the role of curator so you could have a great experience spending a few hours in the store. You would come away having discovered a book that isnt the hotest thing on some review site or message board. That's probably the experience she has been replicating, but now the overall quality has gone down.