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X Ray is supposed to show you the "bones of a book" as Amazon advertised it. It is linked to Shelfari and Wikipedia information. The most useful part is that it shows you a timeline of where a character or place shows up in the book. Then you can see a list of quotes with that term.
It sounds cooler than it is in practice. You could just do a search on a term. Or, just use Wikipedia for real people and places.
Very few books actually have it although more of my recent purchases have had it. For example it is available in the MR literary book club selection for this month, A Secret River. The new PW2 will default to opening the x-ray tab now when you highlight a word in an enabled book, which I'm finding is mostly just the Wikipedia definition.
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