First, full disclosure: I am a member of the Amazon.com Associates Program. I receive referral fees when you click-through my site to Amazon.com to purchase stuff. I have a few of the books in my library listed on the About Me page and I hope to have my entire library listed there soon.
Amazon.com is doing something remarkable:
An ingenious attempt to illuminate the dark region of books is under way at Amazon.com. Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon's multimillion-title catalog. The entire collection, which went live Oct. 23, is searchable, and every page is viewable.
You can read many other details in an article to be published in the December issue of Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia. Better yet, take a look at the Amazon.com page that describes how to use the Searchable Archive.
I don't know about you, but this impresses me to the max. I think this Internet thing just might be alright.
