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ISBN numbers can sometimes be useful for searching, so where available they are usually included in book descriptions on this site. They are always formatted as a single number with no dashes or spaces. You can search on any part of the number - the less digits you include the more results you should get. The number used in each description is copied from the individual book: bear in mind that a single title is supposed to be given a different number each time it is issued in a new edition or by a different publisher (but not when it is just a straightforward reprint). Sometimes they get confused - the hardback edition will bear the paperback's ISBN number or vice-versa, and it's not unheard of for proofreaders to take a nap, so once in a while a title might carry a printed ISBN number that refers to a completely different book. Some books don't have them at all: they weren't used much before the late 1960s, and book club editions rarely use them.

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The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in its index relating to those topics. The more relevant content will usually appear near the top of your results. The index is updated every month or so - it's not automated, so it may occasionally return results for books that have been removed from the site.

Here's an example:
1. Type Geoffrey Chaucer in the search box.
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What is a Phrase? You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box. You can also create phrases by linking the words with dashes, as in geoffrey-chaucer.

Simple Tips for More Exact Searches Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur" and uppercase "FUR" (this also means that the examples in your search results might look a bit odd, as they will not include capital letters or punctuation marks).

Searches are accent insensitive as well - accent sensitivity relates to Latin characters like õ. For instance "Müller" and "Mueller" will be treated as equivalent.

Including or excluding words: To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.

Be careful when using this method: a search only returns the first occurrence of your search terms for any page: for example, searching on "+chaucer -canterbury" will ignore a page if its first Chaucer example also includes Canterbury in the description (i.e., quite often).

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