Louise Bremner wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>
> > > I was going to pass on the useful tip that you can skip most of the
> > > above procedure by finding the book in English on the amazon.com site,
> > > then changing the ".com" part of the URL to ".co.jp", which will take
> > > you to the exact same page on the Japanese site.
> > >
> > > Only it doesn't in this case.
> >
> > No, because the US page often has features not often seen on the Japanese
> > page such as "Look inside!".
>
> It did used to work--the extra bits were simply omitted from the
> equivalent Japanese pages.

Yeah, but the URLs aren't always the same anymore.

> I wonder if they disabled that feature when
> they added the English interface?

I think it was when the US site introduced their "Look Inside!" feature, and
created the weird URLs.

> > However, you can usually see the English page and more plentiful English
> > reviews if you try putting ".com" in place of ".co.jp" on American books,
> > ".co.uk" for British books, etc., to lead you to that country's site.
>
> So the reverse process does still work?

And it saves a lot of trouble over doing the exact same search on those sites.

> How strange.

The Japanese site is not the one with the weird URLs.