Hints on searching the Internet for books

[bookman@rmplc.co.uk (Eric S Hutton)]

Here are a few hints for searching the Internet for that long lost
meteorite book you've been looking for. (I've tried for the Nininger
book request recently..but nothing as yet).

(1) Try one of the following online search pages, the better ones
    come back with a list of books requested. Others just provide 
    you with a dealers catalog, which you then need to download and
    do a text search for the significant word(s).

    http://www.bibliofind.com/

    http://daniel.interloc.com/

    http://www.abebooks.com/

    http://www.abaa-booknet.com/forms/wwwwais.html
  
    Some of these will even allow you to be emailed automatically when
    books of a particular title/author are added to their lists.
 

(2) If you have a title of a book, and its farily uncommon, try feeding
    it though the various search engines. But a find may only be someone 
    mentioning the book you are looking for, not offering it for sale.

(3) A more long-winded approach is to try the home pages of likley used
    book dealers on say "yahoo", not every book dealer is signed up to
    the online search options i.e (1), so you may get lucky. After
    downloading their catalogues.


Happy Hunting.


-- 
Eric Hutton

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