Amazon.com: Books Search Results
It's not the feature itself, which is actually kind of cool, but the fact that when you do a regular search for, say, an author, instead of getting a list of that author's books, you get a list that may include that authors books, along with a TON of books that probably have absolutely nothing to do with what you're looking for.
For instance, I just did a search on "John Harvey" to find out which of Mr. Harvey's books I have read, and which ones I might have missed.
I got a list of 28,844 books all of which, apparently, somewhere in their pages include both the words "John" and "Harvey."
For instance, a book about Keith Richards, which mentions John Lennon and Laurence Harvey, and one about Kurt Cobain which includes in its index references to a Harvey Ottinger and a John Pareles.
Let's see, what else? A handbook about Utah. The "Moon Watcher's Companion." "Close Calls with Baseball Immortality" and "Plants of the Gulf and San Juan Islands and Southern Vancouver Island." Oh, and "White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine."
None of which tell me anything at all about John Harvey.
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