I'm gravitating more and more to using Walmart.com as a first stop. They seem to be ramping inventory way up, their site--especially search--is a pleasure to use compared to Amazon, and shipping is a minor differentiator, if any.
For books, I always check bookfinder before ordering from Amazon.
But if you get a funky product on Amazon, I would think that returning it would be a fine way of registering disapproval. It can't be that good for Amazon, and you can bet they're noticing both the product and the vendor when it happens.
Your opinion about where you lie on the spectrum of capability has everything to do with your own perspective-building and very little to do with "reality", whatever that is. You're comparing where you are with where you can imagine being, and both of those valuations are fraught with error. One of the harsh realities of acquiring skill and sophistication is that those enable a vision of where you <could> be, which is inherently frustrating.
Perhaps the real problem is finding a sense of satisfaction in your work. The algorithm for acquiring that is fairly straightforward: work your edges, i.e., focus on tasks that challenge your current capabilities, but not too much.
Not just the app but the whole user experience: Amazon. Specifically, they should have figured out search by now, but no: the mapping from search terms to results is just a stab in the dark.
It's not just niche users. I hated with a burning righteous rage every single release of iTunes. The overhead of all kinds that it imposed on access to my collection of music never made any sense.
Find your edges: read at the edge of what you're familiar with. When you have holes that need filling, you inhale the new information like a dry sponge slurps up water. Reading something just because you think you "should know" that area, regardless of how far afield it is from your existing knowledge base, makes it more foreign, hence more difficult to absorb. I've gotten enormous benefit from re-reading the manuals of systems I already use but have mastered haphazardly.
It's a challenge to find material at the frontiers of your knowledge, but the effort pays off in efficacy.
For books, I always check bookfinder before ordering from Amazon.
But if you get a funky product on Amazon, I would think that returning it would be a fine way of registering disapproval. It can't be that good for Amazon, and you can bet they're noticing both the product and the vendor when it happens.