Péter's Digital Reference Shelf - December 2003 issue reviews Amazon Search Inside the Book.
Péter Jacsó fully describes how to use Amazon Search Inside the Book to bring up excerpts from books that will answer reference questions or for general interest. he calls Search Inside the Book a quasi-bookstore experience because we can now flip through the pages. Examples illustrate getting travel information about a place (southeast Oahu).
"It makes many genres of books ready-reference tools that were never considered as such because you could not instantly locate tidbits or passages of information about concepts, events, people, locations, procedures, treatments, customs and practices, even if the books had informative titles and good indexes. "
Posted by Gwen at December 10, 2003 03:03 PM