Lightning in a Bottle

Amazon.com has added a new research option for us and our students. While you have always been able to search for books by title or author, you search will now go through the content of thousands of books. Amazon has now scanned in the entire text of over 120,000 titles, and your search will go through all of them. You can then view or print the exact pages with your word or phrase, even without buying the book. (You can’t, however, download or email the pages.)

I’ve tried it, and it’s pretty cool. Your search will come up with the usual books, with links to the pages with your text or phrase below. (When you click on the link, if you don’t see your page, scroll down. The pages sometimes load at the bottom of the screen for some reason on my computer.)

To try it for yourself, head over to www.amazon.com.

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