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How to browse a virtual bookshelf

Dan Russell • September 8, 2015
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How to browse a virtual bookshelf Dan Russell
Something I hear a lot in my search classes is the complaint of "... but I can't browse books the way I used to!"

Well, wait a second. That's not quite right. You can definitely see MORE books that are on the same "shelf" if only you know one little trick. Here's the latest of my "1 Minute Morceaux" series of video shorts that shows you how to browse the online collection of Google Books. In fact, I show two little tricks in this video: How to use the "About this book" bibliographic information to see a larger collection of books on this topic (and any of the other topics the book is cataloged under), and how to find a list of related books on a topic.

The really interesting thing is--you can't do THAT in a physical library. (At least not in under 5 seconds, as you can online!)

Enjoy!


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I study the way people search and research. I guess that makes me an anthropologist of search. While I work at Google, my blog and G+ posts reflects my own thoughts and not those of my employer. I am FIA's Future-ist in Residence. More »

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