Now, I’m a big fan of Amazon’s Search Inside! feature. It’s nice to have the option of flipping through a book, as you would in a regular meat-space bookstore, and it’s made my job as an editorial assistant so much easier on many occasions. But the “SIP” thing seemed a little silly when I first read about it (somewhere else). And I had yet to see it in any real kind of action on the Amazon website.

That being said, it’s with some amusement that I notice the SIP’s for Michael Palin’s new book, Himalaya, which are, in order:

necked cranes, mani stones, yak dung, yak butter, butter tea