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This is an amazing piece of Flash. You put in a word or a name (I used “Elaine”; also try “Harry Potter” or “blue,” for instance) and it uses it in an Amazon search query to create an image of your word(s) made out of Amazon book (or DVD or CD) images.

The magic comes when you click on one of the tiny images that makes up the result. You get an elegant little translucent Flash popup that tells you exactly what it is, how much it costs, and how it’s been rated.

It’s like swimming in books. The word-image part of it is icing.