Wednesday 5 July 2017

Get a quick introduction to any field from Amazon for free

1. Go to Amazon.
2. Type keyword(s) relating to the field you'd like to know more about.
3. Filter and sort to find 4-5  top rated/best selling books in the field
4. Download and read all of the free Kindle samples.
5. Skim read the reviews - particularly the bad ones to get a sense of current debates in the field, other book suggestions etc.

This works because the first 10-20% of many books (once you are past any introduction) is often the best written,  has least amount of padding as it's designed to read in shops etc and contains chapter headings which can investigated via other searches.

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