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You may want a copy of this book in the form of a planar cellulose information
retrieval system, i.e. a printed book. They make good gifts, and are more familiar
to most of us than electronic copies. But finding a printed copy of a book is
sometimes difficult. This section is intended to give you some help by making it
easy to use the more common ways of searching.
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The first column consists of links
to the home pages of the biggest suppliers of
books by mail: Amazon and
Barnes & Noble. These two suppliers have mostly new books, and their
new book inventory probably has an overlap of something like 90%, but this does
not mean that they both have exactly the same price. Both of them also list used
books from outside suppliers, and the used book inventories are usually quite
different. ABE Books is a loose grouping of some 17,000
independent bookstores that list their inventory in a common database - most of these
are used books that vary from just issued best sellers to rare and antique books.
From all three home pages you can do searches, look at comments, check prices of
both new and used copies, look at various formats such as hardback, paperback,
eBook formats and much more.
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The second column has links to Barnes &
Noble and Amazon pages describing their new
eBook Readers. These have become very popular lately as they allow the purchase of
new books and textbooks at prices lower than the printed copies, and in a format
that many people find attractive.
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Clicking on the links in the third column
sends you to the supplier along with the
ISBN (International Standard Book Number) of the book described on this page if we
have been able to find that number. Note that an ISBN refers to a specific edition
of a book. Thus a single book might have many ISBNs: Hardback edition, softback,
large print, foreign language and so on. Usually the book listing on B & N or
Amazon will have links to the other editions that are available.
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Is our ISBN wrong, or perhaps missing all
together. Help us out. Search on B&N and Amazon. If you find one, please let us know.
Enter the thirteen (Barnes & Noble) or ten (Amazon) digit number (no dashes) in
the boxes above and click on the Submit ISBN button. The numbers shown in the boxes
are the numbers we have on file, or zero if we haven't found one.
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