Discovery on Amazon is pretty bad. I've never picked a book there after having serendipitously finding my way to it. But I've done exactly that in bookstores countless times.

The only websites that give me an experience remotely similar are those of old, specialized publishers. Case in point (in French) :

- https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/collections

- https://www.droz.org/france/section/Collections

- https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/29-champion

I'm not: French bookshops are really rather good.

I wonder how many of the hard copies were bought as gifts or purchased by wandering tourists looking for a paper companion.