I haved solved a book request in ages

[Fresno Bob]

and this bothers me! I'm even checking the generic "help" threads.

EDIT: It also bothers me that I can't spell!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Most of us have our dry spells.

[Matt]

i do not think i have ever solved a thread. sorry about the punctuation. i am on my cell phone and goodreads does not play nicely with cell phones.

[Michele]

Try going to the "solved" ones -- don't look at the answer, just read through and see how many posts it takes you to get the answer :)

[Kris]

Thanks for posting this topic, Fresno Bob. I'm sure many folks share this frustration from time to time.

If you're like me, you don't rely on your memory alone. Unfortunately, I don't have that many books floating around in my brain. So I rely on search tools. Here are some sites I've seen mentioned in this group. I'm sure there are many others that may help.


Google Books - www.google.com/advanced_book_search
Google searches such as - 'site:www.goodreads.com keyword "exact phase" keyword' OR 'site:www.amazon.com keyword "exact phase" keyword'
Worldcat - www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch -- No results? Try broadening your search by removing some terms.
Amazon - www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=24... OR www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html?node=... -- Just note the publication year often isn't the earliest one you may be looking for.
Librarything's tag mashes - www.librarything.com/tag/keyword,keyw...
FictionDB - http://www.fictiondb.com/search/searc...
Library of Congress - http://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/searchAd...
Novelist Plus -- You might be able to access this site through your public library's site.
AllReaders - http://allreaders.com/booksearcha.asp#S1
Old Children's Books - www.oldchildrensbooks.com/booksearch
Amazon's "Look Inside" preview for a specific book
Google Book's previews - http://books.google.com/ -- Often Google's previews are longer than Amazon's

[Kimber]

Great post!

[Jess]

Thanks for the List of books search resources.
I think I have helped maybe two books not much considering how much help I've gotten one book I just finished reading so I know exactly what they talking about picture the second when I found through Google.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Jerri wrote: "Trying to find name of book where woman leaves abusive husband and is helped by man with one arm."

Jerri, please start a new thread in UNSOLVED.

[Fresno Bob]

yea, I finally solved one!

[Kris]

Hey, congrats Fresno Bob! :)

[Ed]

Congrats Bob.You may not have solved mine - but you put me on to a good writer. How you getting on with Stone Junction?

[Fresno Bob]

Ed wrote: "Congrats Bob.You may not have solved mine - but you put me on to a good writer. How you getting on with Stone Junction?"

I don't have it yet,my library had to get it from another library