Best-Digital-Photos.com and Books
New Books
Those interested in digital photography may reasonably be assumed to also have some interest
in books about digital photography.
There are many places on the internet that sell new books, but if you run any
reasonable number of random samples through a price-comparison service, you will
reliably find that for new books Amazon Books delivers the lowest price in
the great majority of cases. Moreover, Amazon has free delivery with any order of
new books above a reasonable minimum, and you can "save up" book orders till your
total reaches that minimum. For new books, Amazon is the obvious choice.
(Click on the image above to see a message from Amazon.)
New Books About digital photography
While we have a general Amazon book-search facility that we will discuss more in
a moment (and it's better than Amazon's own), let's talk first about the subject of
this site: digital photography. Our software goes out every night and, through a
special data interface, queries Amazon for all books it carries related to
"digital photography", which is normally many thousands of titles. That software then combs
through the data on those many thousands and discards the ones (typically a large
majority) that are not really available right then (Amazon continues to list
many books that have gone unavailable); the software then lists the truly
available digital photography books on a set of web pages here.
Today, we have
23,560
books on digital photography that you can read about and conveniently one-click buy from right
here, right now, through Amazon. (We do not ourselves categorize these titles:
they are what Amazon returns for the keyword "digital photography"). Here's how you can see all
those titles:
There are two lists. The one most easily used is a set of 28 pages (one for each
letter of the alphabet, a special one for books whose title begins with the word
"digital photography"--so the W page doesn't get overloaded--and one for titles
that begin with something other than a letter). Books are listed on those pages by
the first word of their title, except for titles beginning with A, An,
or The, which are listed by their second word.
The second list is a single "master list"--everything on one page--of all of the
thousands of "digital photography" books available. It is a long page (and may take a while to
load if you have a slow internet connection), and it is straight text, not web text
like the other lists. Its purpose is to allow you to search in one place for titles
containing, but not starting with, some word or phrase, or for particular authors.
You can search the page on line, with your browser's Search
facility, or you can download the page and use any text editor to examine it.
A typical entry on one of the alphabetical set of book-title pages might look
like this:
That's all pretty simple and self-evident: the book's title, which is a click-on
link; the book's author; the publication date and publisher; the Amazon price to you
and best current shipping estimate; and a link to an Abebooks search (of which more
in a moment, under Used Books) for used copies of the same title.
To see the page you'd get if you clicked on the title, well, click on the title
(that sample above works). Before you do, though, let us note that the page you go
to will have more or less the same information--only updated the instant you
click, so you can be sure the price and availability are exactly up to the
minute--plus a really large image of the book's cover (if Amazon has an
image, which it usually but not always does), information on whether the book
qualifies toward the free-shipping minimum (and a link to more information on
Amazon's free-shipping policies), and a one-click button that will put the book in
your Amazon "Shopping Cart" (or let you create a Cart if you are one of those
ever-fewer folk who haven't bought from Amazon before). But: that
page will also have a link that can take you to a second page that is an
exact copy of the first except that it also includes all editorial and
reader reviews of the book that Amazon has. (We don't include those on the first
page because for some books those reviews can be many and long, and thus make the
page slow to load, and we want to give you results right away, plus you may not feel
a need to read reviews before buying a given book).
(Use your browser's Back button to return to this
page after you look over those typical book pages.)
A last thought: don't be afraid to add books to your Shopping Cart. You haven't
actually bought any books till you go through Amazon's checkout procedure.
Till you do, you can add other items to your cart or remove any items already in it
(you use Amazon's pages to do those things).
New Books on Other Subjects
We make it easy for you to locate books on digital photography, but you are not
limited to such books. After all, Amazon sells pretty much every single title
actually in print!
You could, of course, visit Amazon own pages and use their search to locate
books. But experienced internet book buyers know that Amazon's searches are
imperfect in several ways: they usually don't return all available editions
on the first pass, they commonly return all sorts of "non-books" (calendars, post
cards, and suchlike junk), and nowadays their "internal search" returns ridiculously
long sets of results from which it is hard to find actual books you want. And they
clutter up your screen with all sorts of peripheral "information" (read ads)
not much related to what you are searching for.
This site has a book-search page for Amazon that is similar to but, many feel,
much better than Amazon's own. While our page is simple and intuitive to use, it
nonetheless has an extensive introduction that points out some Amazon "gotchas" and
various ways to improve your search experience. But, even if you read all of that
long introduction, you'll only need to go through it once; thereafter, when you
visit that search page (we hope you'll bookmark it and use it as your regular
new-book shopping tool) you can use the "jump to box" link atop the page to get
right to the search box (or you can just bookmark the box once you've jumped to it).
If you want, you can visit and test our
Amazon book-search page right now--use your browser's Back
button to return here.
Each result turned up by our searches is roughly similar to the one of the
digital photography-book listings on our alphabetical pages (except that it also shows a small
image of the cover, something we don't do on our book-list pages because otherwise
they'd take forever to load). When you click on any of the results, you'll be taken
to a page exactly like the pages you get to from our lists, which you have probably
already seen. They are, like the search-results pages themselves, clean, neat,
simple, and easy to look over, unlike the ad-jammed pages Amazon sends you.
Our search, like our digital photography-book lists, defaults to showing you only real books
that are really available--but you can very easily change those defaults if you want
to see unavailable items (for information purposes) or are interested in related
goods (what the trade calls "nonbooks").
Used Books
If, instead of books available new, you are interested--whether for price or
availability reasons--in used books, of any kind (digital photography or other, that is), we
have a nice, simple used-book search
page for you; it searches the listings on Abebooks, a listing service with a
really huge number of internet used-book-selling members--virtually all internet
used-book sellers are ABE listed, from the big guys down to most mom'n'pop
operations.
Like the new-book search, this is a very simple, easy-to-use search facility.
All The "Digital Photography"-Book Pages
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