For several millennia of its own history, mankind has created tens of thousands of books. The worldwide network allows you to find any of them in a matter of minutes - you just need to enter the author and title of the work. However, you may not even know this, but the search will take a little longer.
Instructions
Step 1
Collect what you know about the book into an outline. Take something important (hero, scene, era, genre) and write in the middle of the sheet. Move in different directions a few arrows to other facts you know: for example, "the main character: charming - doctor - married." The most detailed scheme will help you organize information and search more specifically.
Step 2
Use schema words as tags. There are many online libraries and opinion-sharing sites that have an individual page with description, rating and commentary for each book. Examples of such a service are sites imhonet.ru and koob.ru.
Step 3
Go to the site and in the search field enter a set of keywords that can characterize the work: genre, characteristics of the main character, setting or important details. So, the query "doctor, devil" on imhonet will definitely point the user to "Faust" by Goethe.
Step 4
You can also use keywords in standard search engines. At the same time, the results found are often more accurate, because rely not only on the description of books, but also on their real content. An illustrative example is the query “milk, cruelty, Beethoven”: words do not directly characterize the work, and therefore are not recognized by profile sites. However, Google displays the page of the movie "A Clockwork Orange" as the first link.
Step 5
Ask the forums for help. Try to choose a community of suitable topics (do not look for women's novels on the site of fantasy fans) and describe as carefully as possible everything that you know about the book (again, based on the diagram drawn up earlier).
Step 6
Ask about the book from users of questionnaire sites like "[email protected]". The advantage of such projects is that they bring together people with a wide range of interests, because the probability that the book will be found is quite high.
