neotokio

I use amazon for buying books for about two years. 99% of those orders go through amazon.de (Germany). Besides one or two of those orders I almost always get a book which is damaged in some way.

- Bent corners - Dirty pages - Bent cover - Folded pages - Some weird sticky substance on covers (???)

I think that amazon does tremendously good job at fining this thin border when it becomes 'a problem' and I issue a return, otherwise I just don't bother because I don't want to waste time packing it again and waiting for delivery service to pick it up.

However, I am starting to be furious. I pay for new book and effectively receive used one, something which never happens with direct buy from any other store. I googled around and found posts from 2012 detailing same issue.

I buy only books from amazon and sad truth is that if I only could - I'll buy elsewhere, but a lot of positions I can find only there + I need delivery to other country and it's impossible to find better rates for shipping than amazon's.

Does anybody experience same level of frustration? We are talking about 100-200 EUR order which is not a pack of m&m's at corner shop. It annoys hell out of me, looking at destroyed pages during reading because I care about my physical books.

If I decide to judge 'believe' (non-scientific, non-falsifiable) as probabilistic function (easy example - Pascal wager) isn't, ultimately, everything falsifiable? Including the most bizarre of the statements, ie. I believe that there are green skinned trunk people living at the edge of Antarctica.

Only after I add additional constrains, like time, space, frequency or other, I can truly talk about statement being falsifiable in relation to those constrains.

There is also, of course, Gödel.

PS. I realize roots of falsifiability are within philosophy of science and I myself try to extend definition from simple and well defined statements to complex and undefined. It's an exercise.