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If you are serious about in-depth research, you must use book search sites. The fact
is, the information available through book search is for the most part entirely
different from that provided by web search. I urge you to use this deep web
source, which Newsweek correctly described as "a lightning bolt from the future.,,95
Amazon's "Search Inside the Book"
A9 (select "books by Amazon")
Amazon (search "Books")
http://www.a9.com/
http://www.amazon.com/
Despite its many options, the main reason for using A9 is Amazon's Search Inside
the Book feature, a major and unique tool for researching the invisible web. Until I
started using it, I did not realize how important and valuable this feature is for
researchers. Search Inside the Book lets users search through millions of pages
from hundreds of thousands of books in the Amazon catalog. Unlike most book
searches, most of the searchable books at Amazon are still under copyright. To
avoid copyright infringement problems, users can only access content of books for
which Amazon has the publisher's permission to display copyrighted material. Also,
while anyone can search inside the available books, only registered Amazon users
can see the full text.
However, if you are able to register to use Amazon's service, Amazon's Search
Inside the Book results are often better than web searches in terms of
authoritativeness, utility, and thoroughness. Furthermore, Amazon's Search Inside
the Book often lets users view the full content of books for which Google's
and Live's book searches only provide limited views.
Search Inside the Book is an option to search full text and full image content, but
only as permitted by the publisher. This means that given two different editions of
the same book-in this example, Pride and Prejudice-one is fully searchable while
the other is not. How do you determine which books allow you to search their
contents? Look for the "Search Inside" logo with any book at Amazon; if it is
there, you can search the contents of the book (including front and back covers,
table of contents, index, and text). Only keyword searching works (no phrases, for
example) and ALL terms are searched. Here is an example of a search for [pride
prejudice] in Austen's classic:
95 Steven Levy, "Welcome to History 2.0," Newsweek, 10 November 2003,
(14 November 2006).
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