The perils of Search Inside

I’m still coming to terms with Amazon’s amazing ‘Search Inside’ technology. So is my friend and colleague Quentin, who did a ‘search inside’ on himself and found that he appears (as a hapless extra, I hasten to add) in Frederick S. Lane’s book Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age. Q should cheer up — there are worse fates. For example, I’ve discovered that I appear in Colin Jarman’s The Nasty Quote Book! [I described Radovan Karadzic, the infamous Serbian politician as “a rambling, inconsistent, sentimental, bouffanted crook”. Nasty, perhaps; but also true.]