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book interface
It's taken me a while to get my mind around Amazon's new "Search Inside" feature—the sheer size of the data-entry operation that must have been necessary to get it up and running still boggles me. (Let's not forget to thank the low-paid overseas workers who helped make it possible.)
That said, I like it that some people are beginning to think about how to use the Amazon tool as a kind of interface system for the world of books.
Steven Johnson writes: "[W]e should also be able to use it to search our own private libraries of books we've already purchased."
Great idea! I wonder how long it will be before some clever Amazon developer writes up some gewgaw that will allow us to do exactly that. (Johnson develops his idea a bit more here.) |
Friday, November 14, 2003
1:20 PM
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