Important: See also: How to Download various Book files, below
See also: Book
Formats, below.Understanding Key Words.
Using Key Words is a very powerful tool for finding titles for
which you can only remember a fragment of the title or for
finding titles in a specific subject area. However, it does
require a little experimentation and a little knowledge of
how this works.
For example, if you enter "war"
(without the quote marks)the search will return titles with "war" anywhere in the title or
anywhere within a word within a title. This might be the result:
war, warfare, warplanes,
warlord, hardware, etc.This is called a "string" search. It will find a string of
characters anywhere in the entire list of titles.
If you were looking for books on the subject
of Dance,it would be helpful to enter the word as " Danc " (leaving off
the "ing"). This would return:
dance, dancer, and
dancing,and would provide a fuller list of titles on Dancing.
If you entered the word "transportation" and the word "career",
you would find all books that refer to careers in transportation.
However, if you exclude the word "career", you will find all
those books that refer to transportation, but not those about
careers in transportaion.
Here are some samples:
| If you want | try | potential results | |
| philosophy | philos | philosophy philosopher
philosophical etc |
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| economics | econ | economics economical
econometric etc |
|
| astronomy astrophysics |
astron astrop |
astronomy astrophysics | |
| Note: if you only entered "astro", you would also find astrology, a very different subject. |
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Be aware, however, such general words may return hundreds of
titles. The "secret" to this kind of search is finding the right
bal-
ance between a word or fragment that is too general or too narrow.
How to Download various Book files.
You will find a link to the title you wish
to download (or
read on-line) in the "Format" column of titles. When you
click on the link, one of several things will occur:
You will be
connected immediately to a book file for
downloading. Your browser will ask you if is OK (and where)
to download. (or) In some instances, a file will start
downloading without asking. (or)
You will be
connected to another site to download
a book file. You may be asked (even if a book is "free") to
"login" at the download site before downloading. (or)
If you have
selected a "Txt," "Txt-G" (Guttenberg Text) or PDF
file, the actual text file may load onto your screen. You may
then choose "File" on your browser and "Save As". Give
the
file a name and a folder location. A variant: You will land in
a "folder" on the Web Server. You will then have to select
the book file you want to download. (or)
If you have
clicked on a site which requires payment (such
as NetLibrary or Barnes & Noble), you will be transferred to the
"front door" of that site. Follow the procedures for logging in or
starting a shopping session. Then, locate the title you wish to
purchase and add it to your shopping cart. (or)
Some combination
of the above. Please follow the directions
on the destination site.
