Some book search sites

• ChooseBooks
  ChooseBooks is a new book search site. Definitely worth checking out.
• The Advanced Book Exchange Home Page
  This is one of the best databases for finding books of modern and contemporary literature that would otherwise be difficult to locate. The searchable fields are: author, title, publisher, and keyword. Additionally, this site lets users limit searches to hard or soft bindings, first editions, signed copies, and/or examples with a dust jacket. Finally, this site lets users limit searches to booksellers which are located in a particular geographic area, belong to the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (or Canada), and books available at certain book fairs. Overall, I find this to be the best stand-alone search site.
• Alibris
  This database associated with Amazon has a basic search form for searching for titles and or authors. In addition, this site also contains an advanced form. This form provides additional searchable fields, such as subject, ISBN, and general keyword. Aditionally, one can define publication year spans and year ranges to search. This site also contains forms to let a user limit a search to examples that have particular binding type, first editions, and/or signed copies. Another handy feature is the form element that lets one limit searchs to items that have been newly posted within the last 14, 7, or 1 days.
• Bizrates's rankings of online booksellers
  This site evaluates many commercial web sites of many different categories. One of these categories is online booksellers. The site not only lists some of the most popular web booksellers, but it also provides rankings for each. In addition to the general, overall rankings, they also have quite a few other, more specific rankings. Examples of the alternate ratings include ease of ordering, product selection, price, and on-time delivery. The rankings rate the booksellers in descending order from the best in a certain category to the worst.
• Bookfinder
  Formerly known as MX Bookfinder this site simulateously searches multiple book databases. Currently, Bookfinder searches Alibris, Amazon, AntiQbook, Bibliocity, Powell's Books, and YourBooks.com. The site allows searching by author's first and/or last name, title, and keywords. Bookfinder also lets users limit searches to copies with a particular binding, only first editions, only signed copies, certain price ranges, and to either new or used copies (since this site also searches stores carrying new books i.e. Amazon). Another nice feature of this site is the information it provides after each search, which includes, among other things, information on whether or not a particular site was searched (if it wasn't it is typically because it was not responding or taking too long). copies (since this site also searches stores carrying new books
• The BookWire Index
  The BookWire site provides this large index of booksellers, including brief descriptions of each entry.
• Bibliofind
  This is yet another searchable database of many bookdealer's offerings. Its search features are similar to the others.
• Interloc (now known as Alibris)
• Taugher books
  This online bookseller from Belmont California specializing in modern first editions is one of my favorite dealers.
• Powell's Books
  This Portland, Oregon book superstore has a large selection of new and used books for sale through its web site. Additionally, they have a convenient 1-800 telephone number.
• More Book Search Forms
  This site (off of Steve Trussel's excellent site) allows the user to input information into a master form which is then transferred to other forms allowing searching of the chosen keywords on the sites listed. This site is useful in that it groups together many bookseller sites that are not included in the large search engines. However, the forms do not work flawlessly. They often place information of any type into the most general, "keyword" field on the booksellers' forms. The creators of this site are aware of this problem and thus allow visitors to correct and/or relocate information on any of the subforms. In addition, this site has links to each bookseller's home page.
• MX Bookfinder (now known as Bookfinder)
• Book Hunter Press
  This site lists and provides basic information about the Book Hunter's Guides. These publications lists and give information on many book shops around the country. Each book concerns itself with a particular part of the country (i.e. New England, Midwest). The guides provide information on a shops location, the emphasis of its collections, how high or low its prices are, how well it is organized, as well as any other comments the authors chose to include. Additionally, these books include driving directions for all shops and basic locator maps showing the location of the shops found in larger cities.
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