I found this list of most harmful books of the last two centuries via Alex Exler’s LiveJournal. Of course, the harmness of the each book is very subjective and depends on who are the judges. Also, interesting to note, that although books are considered harmful, each entry has a link to appropriate Amazon.com page.
I myself flipped through a couple of books in this list while I was a teenager. Now I am more interested in reading them, but I don’t have any copies around.
Finally, my order arrived from Amazon. My wishlist has been updated accordingly. :) This time I ordered a couple of books by Ansel Adams and few DVDs.
For some reason, customs office repackaged the shipment into a bigger bag and didn’t specified my full address. I had to go to the main post office and after a number of explainations and tricks, get the package there. Surprised? I guess not. :)
I’ve came across a new search engine from Amazon.com today – A9.com. It looks and feels much like Google, which is used for web searches anyway, but there are a couple of interesting bits about it.
First, if you’ll create yourself an account, A9 will remember you previous search queries. Nothing new here, though. While most of search engines don’t do it, most of the browsers do.
Secondly, it is possible to see “Site info” for each search result, where some specific information can be found, like contacts, description, etc. The weak side of it is that this information must be submitted by a human and is not generated automatically.
It is also boasted that A9 has some “Search Inside the Book” ™ technology which you can use to find text in Amazon books. I didn’t have any piece of text in mind at the moment, so I couldn’t test if it works or not.
The last nice thing I’ve noticed about this search engine is that it is very easy to operate by just using the address bar of the browser. That means that direct queries are easily constracted. For example: http://a9.com/leonid%20mamchenkov.
People who work with Amazon.com a lot will probably find this search engine handy. Me – I don’t like the peachy colors. :)
Books have finally arrived. Off to do some reading.
Amazon actually shipped the books. Another couple of weeks…