Using Amazon.com Search Inside! for Research

    As I was writing a paper for my SAGES class the other evening, I came across a problem that well-organized students never face: finding the location in a text where an awesome A-worthy quote came from.  Yeah I had my notes from when I was reading the book, but I had forgotten to write down the page number for the quote I wanted to use.  I knew the general location of the quote, give or take 10 pages, but I was far too lazy to search the text by hand.  There had to be an easier way.
    After discovering that the text I wanted to reference was on Amazon.com, AND the Search Inside! feature was available for it, I knew I was in business.
    Amazon has this cool feature that allows you to view the texts of certain books to see whether they contain the information you want.  This gives you a similar experience to flipping through the pages of a book in a store before you buy it.  Not only can you browse sample pages (actually you can read the whole book online if you want...search Google for a how-to if you are that interested), but you can also search the book for specific words or strings of text.
    Fortunately, I had the quote that I wanted handy: "...power and wealth have rarely been far from one another."  A 5-second search of this string ended up showing me that the quote was on page 201, saving me precious time from searching for the exact page number by hand.
    So next time you need to find a specific line from a text, check to see if you are able to Search Inside the book on Amazon; you might end up saving yourself some time.