{"id":5153,"date":"2003-10-23T09:06:46","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2003-10-23T09:06:46","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T16:06:46","slug":"too_cool_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/too_cool_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Too cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon now lets you search for books <a title=\"Amazon.com: Books \/ Search Inside the Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/10197021\/ref%3Dsib%5Fmerch%5Fgw\/104-8660713-2000718\">by interior content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 120K books have been fully scanned in. Do a search, and not only will you get results where the word(s) are in the title or author name, but if there are books with the search terms inside them, you&#8217;ll get that, too.<\/p>\n<p>You can even then page through the book in question.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>It almost seems too good.  If you can so easily page through a book, will it hurt sales?  Or, as the music downloaders suggest, will it help sales?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon now lets you search for books by interior content. Some 120K books have been fully scanned in. 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