Fascinating additional link to readily accessible knowledge. Of course, you can ask, how accurate is the book cited? Still like the further effort, will look for examples now. Also note the use of the Internet Archive, which we also used for research.
Wikipedia references now include book previews hosted by the Internet Archive 130,000 references have been digitized so far.
By Georgina Torbet, @georginatorbet in Engadget
Wikipedia is an incredible resource, but the accuracy of claims published on its pages is sometimes called into question. To improve the site's credibility and usability, the Internet Archive is working to make references easier to follow by linking them to digital copies of books.
So far, 130,000 references have been linked to 50,000 digitized books that are hosted by the Archive. To see an example of the new digital referencing in action, you can head to the Wikipedia page for Martin Luther King, Jr. If you look at the reference for Adam Fairclough's book To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference & Martin Luther King Jr at the bottom of the page, you'll see it's a clickable link. Clicking takes you to the Internet Archive's digital version of the book, open to the page from which the reference was taken.
When you open a digital book hosted by the Archive, you can see a few pages of preview to check the reference information. If you want to read more, you can borrow a digital copy of the book through the Controlled Digital Lending program. ... "
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