![]() ![]() It did remove the blue covers popping up at the top, but it highlighted The Little Mermaid more than anything. I thought adding Texas would drill down a bit more, but in this case, it didn’t. You do not need quotes around single word descriptions, but you will want to include a + between them, so that Google picks up all of those search terms as critical in the search. The first page of results doesn’t look especially promising here, as the results are primarily about mermaid book covers on young adult books (which makes sense since that’s literally the search).įrom here, I’ll add another detail I remember to the search. ![]() But I know that the book did not have a blue cover. “Mermaid cover” and “young adult” brought up a sea (heh) of blue tinted covers for the book. Note: these tips are also useful if you’re itching to find a new-to-you book based on some keywords or descriptions of things you really like or want to know more about. I’ve compiled some of my best tips and tricks as a reader and former librarian to help you track down those former favorite gems. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to help you find a book by description. Even for someone like me who writes down every book I read and have since high school, there are times I remember a scene or pieces of a book’s story that make me realize I’ve forgotten the title or author and I desperately want to reconnect with the book. We’ve all been in the position of hoping to find a book by description at some point if we’re readers. She’d hoped I could find a book by description and indeed, I did-it just wasn’t the book she’d hoped it was. As she gave me the things she could remember about the book cover and title, I realized she wasn’t talking about a Danielle Steele book, but a Daniel Silva book. One of my favorite reference librarian questions came from a patron who said she wanted to read the latest Danielle Steele book, which she’d seen at the local grocery store. ![]()
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