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Guest Angus MacVox

Google rocks, Lexis-Nexus rocks but you have to pay for it.

But neither I think compare to the innovation Amazon.com has just wrought. FULL TEXT SEARCHING of thousands of books (and soon all of them)... and when you use your amazon login and password you can view the entire page and several surrounding page. You can't even do this at your local University library folks, this is a librarians wet dream.

Right now you can go on Amazon.com and search through pirate books, or, like I just did, Penthouse Letters :ph34r:

It's a whole new world.

Here's an article about it:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2090298/

But better yet, go try it out!!

http://www.amazon.com

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I wish I could accept your congrats, but I didn't invent it :ph34r:

On a side note, I bet this will increase the instances of plagiarism sightings in published works... it will be so easy to see how particular phrases are used and cited.

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A world of knowledge at their disposal, and what do they look for?

The Penthouse letters.

Pirates!

Yup, that be us...

Pushing the limits means getting out of my comfort zone and giving more when I don't think I have any left.

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