Guest Blogging Again: How do you find new books?

[jpskewedthrone]

My monthly blog at APEX is up today. This month I'm talking about the fact that I can't go to the bookstore and simply browse for new books and authors like I used to . . . and the fact that it's put a crimp in my book buying style. I like to support new authors, but since I can't find them on the shelf as easily anymore, I know I'm missing out on a bunch of them out there, since the only way I hear about them anymore is word of mouth. So I pose the question: How do you find new books? You can answer here or over at the APEX blog.

Comments

[blitheringpooks.livejournal.com]

Recs from people (friends or bloggers or trusted reviewers) whose taste I share and trust.

Occasionally from the Amazon "people who bought this also bought that" if the premise/cover copy looks good. (I rarely pay attention to amazon reviews, unless the overall scores are really low, which I generally assume means it's not a good book.)

I bought way too many impulse books when I still browsed book stores regularly and when I cleaned out my office earlier this year, I got rid of about six book-boxes of TBR books that I finally accepted I was never going to read. My problem is this. Years ago when I first started buying books, "This looks like it might be interesting," was enough for me to buy and read a book. And for years, "This might be interesting," was enough for me to buy it. But in recent years my reading habits have changed, and my life has changed, and "might be" is never enough to tempt me to actually open and read it in my rare spare time. Now I have to feel a much stronger enticement. Coming to terms with that has helped my pocket book and my cluttered house.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, I haven't been able to quell the "this might be interesting" buy at this point. So I have a ton of books on my TBR that I would like to read, but probably won't get to any time soon.