This implies that librarians are able to filter through the vast troves of the endless self- or small-scale publishing stream. That is what big publishers and influential reviewers do for you when they push big names.

I have yet to find a way out of this rabbit hole because the modern publishing world is stacked with junk now that everyone can create printed and digital content.

Finding good original non-mainstream content on the internet is difficult enough as it is. There is no DuckDuckGo for books with sensible PageRank (yet).