[vox-tech] amazon "search in the book" questions

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:25:22PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Consider this URL, which is a page inside a book about Green's functions:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0521282888/ref=sib_rdr_prev2_ex1/104-6467245-0944703?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00H&ns=1#reader-page
> 
> When I use the browser (FF) to print the page, the book's contents don't
> show up on the printed page.  Same thing when I use FF's preview print
> feature.
> 
> When I use left click "view image", the book page's contents disappear too.
> No matter where I click, the page title is "transparent pixel".
> 
> How exactly does Amazon do this?  Is there a way of saving the book page
> contents to an image file?  The only thing I could think of is taking a
> window image with GIMP or something like that.

From source:


      <div id="pageBack" style="position:relative; top: -938; z-index:1; height:937; width:600" class="readerImage">
        <img src="http://lookinside2-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lepVAssn4vjwVU61JjTOjzPDetM3hXxYjFZinStxPbVqEn+3DFP1ensm" width="600" name="si_pageUnder" height="937" border="0" />


That '<img' is your page.


Peace.

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