My Faves for Thursday, January 10, 2008

Rafe Furst has published a way of reading entire books for free on Amazon. By searching for a set of keywords which progresses you through an entire book, you create a Covering Set. It sounds a bit heavy-weight to me…

Quoted: A set of keywords that lets you read an entire book for free on Amazon is a covering set (CS). If the number of keywords in a CS is less than or equal to that of all other CSs for the same book, then it is a Minimal Amazon Covering Set (MACS). There may be more than one MACS for any given book. (And yes, someone who is highly skilled at discovering these could be considered a “MACS book pro”).

This seems like a handy service. You can select a Public Domain book from the Internet Archive or Google Books and have it printed by Lulu for you.