Jason just showed me the new Concordance feature on Amazon. I'm not sure how useful it is, but it's interesting and pretty slick. It gives you a Flickr-tag-style map of the 100 most popular words in the book.
For example, the concordance of Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver looks something like this:
Clicking on one of the terms searches for it in the text of the book itself, for example: Leibnitz
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With a little swipe and replace, a person can use the amazon.com concordance in their own book.
http://www.bainbooks.com/2005/04/concordance-you-are-dog.html
I don't know how useful it is either, but it was fun.
Terry
Posted by: Terry Bain | April 28, 2005 at 09:12 PM