Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Google Gunton

This is probably the most exciting thing I will discover all week.

Need to find a particular sentence, or wondering how often a word occurs in one of Gunton's works? Then Google Gunton. Google has launched a fantastic service whereby you can search the text of one of many books they have in their database. You get the usual Google snippet and page reference. Unfortunately you can't always see the full page on screen, and the number of books by Gunton is limited, but if they search the book you need and you have the book you now know right where to go. I've put all the links for Gunton's works in the sidebar. When you go there, type in something in 'Search within this book' and watch the magic. Want to know which other books reference Gunton? Then do a new search for 'Colin Gunton' - that secondary bibliography is going to be growing exponentially in the next few days!