Have you ever tracked down a book with a great title, certain that it would be relevant to your research, only to be sorely disappointed when you discover a mere five sentences on your topic of interest? Now there’s help! Microsoft Live Search Books offers a neat visual ruler that shows you how often and where your search terms appear in the book:
The green indicates where the search term “robotics” appears in the example above. This is a handy feature that can help you determine if a book is relevant to your needs before you make the effort to hunt it down.
For more help on searching for books online, visit the library’s Online Books Guide.
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1 Gavin // Apr 12, 2008 at 10:52 am
when searching in a library catalog, another way of preventing irrelevant results is to use the “subject heading” search mentioned in the March 13 post.
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