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=) we know his mother's maiden name... it's in Just For Fun: The Story Of An Accidential Revolutionary, but I'm too lazy to look it up...

I decided to search for a single sentence in a book, chosen thusly:

1. Go to All Consuming, a website that tracks book commentary on weblogs.
2. Grab their 'First Line Trivia' for the day, which is a quote of the first line from some book featured on a weblog that day. Today's example was "The Professor sat behind his desk, dwarfed by his vast red leather armchair."
3. Plug the line into Amazon's search field

The correct answer is "Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love" by Dan Rhodes. Did Amazon match it? I don't know, as I didn't have the patience to page through the 963 'matches'.

Note: I didn't actually expect this to work, but it would have been cool!

AllConsuming.Net makes great use of the amazon APIs, along with those provided by google, and various blog interfaces.
...its sort of like an All Music Guide for books.

While the Internet Book List looks like it might eventually become a worthwhile alternative data source to Amazon.com, I've been using All Consuming for a little while and find it to be an exceedingly useful resource for book information.

While it does use Amazon data (the merits of which are discussed in other replies to this article), All Consuming provides a clean interface and metainformation to the base data, as well as nifty features like weblog scanning (to find mentions of books), the ability to track a book collection, and a "friends" network that keeps one up-to-date with other members' various literary excursions.

As I put it on my weblog: "If you read, join All Consuming."

While the Internet Book List looks like it might eventually become a worthwhile alternative data source to Amazon.com, I've been using All Consuming for a little while and find it to be an exceedingly useful resource for book information.

While it does use Amazon data (the merits of which are discussed in other replies to this article), All Consuming provides a clean interface and metainformation to the base data, as well as nifty features like weblog scanning (to find mentions of books), the ability to track a book collection, and a "friends" network that keeps one up-to-date with other members' various literary excursions.

As I put it on my weblog: "If you read, join All Consuming."