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Amazon Launches Full Text Book Search

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-through-it-all dept.

m00nun1t writes "Amazon have launched a new service that allows you to search the full text of books. This sounds like an incredibly useful function as well as technically impressive at this scale. I wonder if a patent is in the works." Or if a patent is already owned.

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  1. Re:I GUZZLE MY OWN SHIT by dotgod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A higher score?!? Let me try...NO CARRI(+5, funny)

  2. Re:Amazon have? by dnahelix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Amateurs.

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  3. Re:um...spell "launches" correctly please by dnahelix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Amateurs.

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  4. Re:um...spell "launches" correctly please by otisg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They are just testing the 'recent discovery' that people have no problems reading even misspelled words, as long as the first and last letters are the correct ones.

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  5. Re:abuse by Enoch+Root · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Many people, myself included, download movies. Very few people owning what is called 'a life' would rather download a crappy DivX rip of a movie off Usenet than rent it at Blockbuster's.