Karl Haberstock. Using Amazon Kindle's "Search Everything" function to quantify, locate, and analyze mentions in ebooks.
Any ebook or doc file on Kindle is searchable. Amazon's ebook device indexes books and (most) documents and provides fast searches through all content.
One quick search on Kindle shows that Haberstock's name appears:
One quick search on Kindle shows that Haberstock's name appears:
- 124 times in Simon Goodman's The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis,
- 60 times in Susan Ronald's Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
- 60 times in the OSS (USS Office of Strategic Services) Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index,
- 36 times in Kenneth D. Alford's Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection:The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II
- 26 times in Stephanie Barron's Degenerate Art: the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany
- 13 times in Malcolm Goldstein's Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
- 9 times in Petropoulos' Bridges from the Reich:The Importance of Émigré Art Dealers as Reflected in the Case Studies of Curt Valentin and Otto Kallir–Nirenstein
If the ebook is loaded on Kindle, the results are immediate. And not limited to books. Kindle also searches through documents.
Immediately, with no coding, preparation or Uniform Resources Identifiers (URIs).
A click on any one of the books displayed will immediately take the user to a list of every text in which the word is mentioned, in context, and available for highlighting in Notes.
While awaiting for the promise of Linked Open Data to be fulfilled, Kindle can provide a simple tool to unify information. The only requirement: to download the ebook to the Kindle device.
Dbpedia, in German: http://de.dbpedia.org/page/Karl_Haberstock
Wikidata (Library of Congress, VIAF, ISNI, GND, BFN
http://wikidata.org/entity/Q1731388