BlogRodent: Pentecostal Rumination & Review

So, Google Books has been revived and released. Naturally, therefore, I egosurfed. Here is what I found:

• More Perfect Illustrations for Every Topic and Occasion — Page 84
  by PreachingToday.com — Religion — 2003 — 385 pages
  … behind-the-scenes documentary “Walking the Mile” (Warner Home Video, 1999); submitted by Rich Tatum; Wheaton, Illinois U ENDURANCE ENDURANCE PREPARES US …
  Limited preview — Table of Contents — Index — About this book
• Perfect Illustrations for Every Topic and Occasion: For Every Topic and Occasion — Page 297
  by Craig Brian Larson — Religion — 2002 — 384 pages
  It’s all about who they are and what they want.” Citation: Rich Tatum, Carol Stream, Illinois; source: Dave Tenenbaum, “When Kids Kill,” The Why Files, …
  Limited preview — Table of Contents — Index — About this book
• Surviving Information Overload: The Clear, Practical Guide to Help You Stay on Top of What You… — Page 90
  by Kevin A Miller — Self-help — 2004 — 240 pages
  I like the filter because, as Rich Tatum, an email expert at ChristianityToday.com, told me, “The tool takes a few days to train (maybe 5 or 10 minutes …
  Limited preview — Table of Contents — Index — About this book
• Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook — Page 543
  by Syngress — Computers — 2002 — 512 pages
  … Ad hoc IP Tools (Clearinghouse for online utilities to look up and attribute e-mail addresses, domain names, IP addresses, and more). www.tatumweb.com/ …
  Limited preview — Table of Contents — Index — About this book
• John Foxe at Home and Abroad — Page 279
  by David M. (EDT) Loades — Religion — 2004 — 297 pages
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  Limited preview — Table of Contents — Index — About this book
• HackNotes Network Security Portable Reference — Page 222
  by Michael Horton, Clinton Mugge — Computers — 2003 — 288 pages
  [Sorry, this page's content is restricted]
  Limited preview — Table of Contents — Index — About this book

This works so much like the “Inside the Book” search available at Amazon.com that I’m almost persuaded it’s the same technology. But searching via A9 returned a different result-set:

• Word 2003 Bible
  by Brent Heslop, David Angell, and Peter Kent (29 September, 2003)
  page 64 : ” … set online at various Web sites, such as www.fingertipsoft.com/3dkbd/ansitable.html or http://tatumweb.com/typerat/ansirodent.htm. The Symbol dialog box remains open until you click Cancel … “
  See more references to tatumweb in this book.
• HackNotes(tm) Network Security Portable Reference
  by Michael Horton and Clinton Mugge (25 July, 2003)
  page 6 : “ttp://tatumweb.com/iptools.htm Huge list of various online network dig tools”
  See more references to tatumweb in this book.
• Christ! I Want Your Body: A Laymans Search for the Church Representing the Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
  by James J. Jordan (November, 2003)
  page 6 : ” … http://tatumweb.com/churchrodent/ “
  See more references to tatumweb in this book .
• Movie-Based Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching — Volume 1
  by Craig Brian Larson and Andrew Zahn (01 June, 2003)
  page 151 : ” … Redemption by Stephen King), directed by Frank Darabont submitted by Rich Tatum, Romeoville, Illinois … “
  See more references to “Rich Tatum”|”Richard Tatum” in this book.

In neither case are you allowed to easily read the entire book on screen … in order to do so you have to laboriously search until you get the page you want with the results you want. Say you wanted to reach pages 1–10 of a particular book, you have to search until you get page 1, 2, or 3 in your result-set, then after reading pages 1–3 (assuming one or more pages aren’t blanked out to prevent intellectual material theft), you need to search for an exact phrase on page 3 in order to get another approximate set of pages matching your query. You do this, on and on, through the book.

Seriously, buy the book. This isn’t an easy way to read without paying the cover price. I don’t know what all the concern about copyright theft is about. This is so clearly useful for research and promotion but not much else.

Well, egosurfing aside, that is.

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