I'm buying ungodly numbers of books and I'd say more than half of what I get from Amazon is PoD, and print quality varies. In my country (Poland) they have one huge advantage: the price. It's quite often somewhere between 30%-50% cheaper than alternatives which is significant given book prices.
One thing that is pretty annoying is when a PoD book that had colors in the original no longer has them, e.g. on charts, but text still refers to them with color names.
I'll likely stop buying from Amazon too because over the years quality of PoD books also seems to be dropping, it wasn't that bad years ago.
I am not gp, but I like to have a nice collection of unread books to browse and pick from, not (to almost quote someone, from my vague memory) "shelves full of books to impress others with what I have already read".
> The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it, but because the only picture they have of it in their mind is the negative one.
Can't relate. I was super optimistic until I saw what overreliance on AI and ubiquitous public access are doing to my peers and - from what I hear - to school-attending generations.
Haha, I completely get it. It sounds dystopian on paper! But when you're actually in the middle of a screaming match, having a neutral machine strip out the anger so you can just read the core issue is surprisingly therapeutic. It’s definitely a weird timeline, but it’s a highly functional one!"
One thing that is pretty annoying is when a PoD book that had colors in the original no longer has them, e.g. on charts, but text still refers to them with color names.
I'll likely stop buying from Amazon too because over the years quality of PoD books also seems to be dropping, it wasn't that bad years ago.
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