Picky Egghead is a single-minded online bookseller toting a big dream of bringing together the charm of a bookshop and its dedicated owner with everything participatory technology can offer the online book buyer.

While Picky Egghead's is :

a site for people searching for informative books who would like to share their knowledge with others through an enjoyable book browsing, searching, recommending and commenting experience;

a one-stop shop for book buying, comparative pricing, exhaustive multi-lingual book searching, next generation recommending, book bargains, new releases and viewing great book covers where you can do all this in a receptive mode or you can participate, create and share your knowledge;

a powerful recommendation system that encourages the recognition of the best books on a topic and drives the creation of recommendations according to the things you want to know about rather than according to what a book is written about;

committed to a culture of continuous improvement in the quality and breadth of the recommendations found on the site, in the comments, forum and cover browsing; and in allowing users to improve recommendations by adding books and tags and even by replacing a book with one which, in the opinion of the user, is a better title.