From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 11/27/2022 10:59, Aaron Deals wrote:   
   > Until roughly 2007, Amazon allowed a user to create a ranked list of   
   > books, with that user's comment about each book. The topic might be   
   > statistics or risk management or bonsai. The lists were fully public   
   > and searchable by topic.   
   >   
   > When I google this, I come up empty.   
   >   
   > Why did Amazon discontinue this feature?   
   >   
   > What was this feature called precisely?   
   >   
   > What's the closest equivalent today on another book site?   
      
   I can't answer your last two questions, but I can speculate on the first   
   one.  (Then again, perhaps a real book store, such as "Barnes and   
   Noble", has such a feature -- I don't know.)   
      
   My guess would be that when Amazon branched out from being an on-line   
   book store, into a nation-wide behemouth, at some point along the way,   
   they decided that they no longer need to cater to small end-users who   
   are going to Amazon to buy books.  I'd assume that book-only buyers make   
   up a *very* tiny fraction of Amazon's sales, now.  I wish that they   
   stayed a book-store only.   
      
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