Photograph: Alicia Canter People browse inside the bookshop tent.
Eventually he'd like to build a Minbox feature that allows recipients to browse inside a zip file without having to open it, so you can manage these sorts of files on your phone.
Today the company will introduce a program called "Browse Inside" on its Web site (harpercollins.com), providing readers access to the first three pages of most chapters in 135 titles by 10 authors, including well-known writers like Michael Crichton, Lisa Scottoline, Bernard Cornwell and Paulo Coelho.
For now HarperCollins does not plan to sell books directly to customers online, but will rather use the "Browse Inside" feature as a way to lure readers to its Web pages, which will also include interviews, tour schedules, reading group guides, photographs and links to author blogs.
Initially, you just browse the Inside app based on the top stories and on different news categories, but as you read, you can indicate the kinds of articles you want to see more and less of, and Inside will create a personalized news feed.
I went for a little walk inside, browsed through the books, went into the photocopy room, skimmed through the others' work.
As of my trip, a four-story outlet of the South California brand Hollister was the latest; inside, I found throngs of 20-something fashion lemmings browsing as a sound system blared the lyrics "Oh it's so cliché …" Exactly.
Shopping in the Grand Bazaar? Don't be surprised if you're invited inside a shop for a cup of tea while browsing through the goodies.
One recent weekday, Maria de Lourdes Martinez sat at a cubicle inside an AltaMed enrollment office in East Los Angeles browsing through the health plans available under the Affordable Care Act.
