Amazon.com is not just for buying books - it can be used as a very useful database and information center about titles. Two most interesting tools are Search Inside function and A9 search engine.
In the books which are marked with the logo of Search Inside you may not only check the table of contents (something that even publishers of the book don't do very often), index, sample pages and other portions of the text but also find terms IN the text of the books. Of course, if your search query is very general, you're going to get millions of hits, but if you're looking for a very specific term or name, or only remember the name of the main character in a book, or the name of the town in which the story is set, the search will yield the titles in which your term or word appears.
A9 does not only power the search that makes Search Inside possible but allows you to search information on all Amazon products ("ordinary" googling may give you a pointer to a title on Amazon but will not search inside the book or customers' comments).
So, even if you're not buying from Amazon, you can still check whether the inside of the book has what you needed from it.
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