How can I find what page number number a quote is from in a book if...

[PoptartPoptart]

I haven’t got the book??
It’s for my uni assignment due in next week.
I wrote down the quote and the book details but stupidly forgot to write down the page number.
The book isn’t available in the library now and I really want to use the quote.
Is there an app or anything I can use to find it? (I don’t even mind paying!)
Thanks

Put the quote into Google, it might come up. I once identified a source I hadn't written down by putting a phrase from my notes into Google.

(Or just make up a page. I did in my thesis, because I couldn't get hold of the book. Nobody noticed. Not that I recommend that as a general practice, of course!)

Google how to find university PDF texts for free and find it that way online.

Is the book on Google? If so, you can preview some books, so you might find it that way.
Alternatively, search the phrase/quote along with the author and you might find it.
Ask others in your study group/course - if someone has the book, they may be happy for you to look through it quickly.

In my professional capacity I highly recommend making it up.

Is it on Google Scholar? Sometimes you can find an extract on there and thr page number is visible.

If you can find the book on Amazon, do a search within it for the quote. That has saved my bacon on many an occasion.

Thanks all, I have been searching on Google but no joy, but I’ll give some of the other suggestions a try.
Making it up sounds very tempting

Start a thread ‘Does anyone have this book’ with the name of the book in the thread title. There’s an awful lot of people on Mumsnet, including academics and students; it’s not that unlikely that someone will have it, or will be willing to look in their library for it.

Have u put some of the quote in your university library search engine? Think on an advanced search you can do "include phrases"

Make it up

www.worldcat.org

Try this website. Was always helpful when I had forgotten to get a reference for a book as you can select the ref format for your specific uni e.g. Harvard

Maybe post the book title here, someone may have the book to help!

Ha! Found it!
Google Scholar was my savior!
Thanks all, really appreciate it

@MartaHallard
Every second day or so I have to listen to my DH rant and rave about people who do not verify their quotes (wrong page, wrong words, wrong edition or even wrong book) let alone all those who stop reading when the text fits into their argument instead of reading on and having their whole paper crashing down on them. He usuallly has to tell them gently (uni people are senstive souls) and then suffers to me at the dinner table.

sensitive

The best thing - that would get you more marks - is not to use a direct quote at all. Put the argument or statement into your own words; that way you’ve shown you understand the material and can communicate that understanding to others. Then you don’t need to know the page number either!

why wouldn't you need a page number for an indirect quote? You still need to reference it, otherwise it's plagiarism.

Indeed you do. But because it isn’t a direct quote, you don’t need the page number.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus, my subject is history, my invented page number was from a long out of print book. The university where I did my thesis didn't have a copy, so I thought it unlikely anyone could check it.

It was part of my review of how contemporaries, back in the 19th century, viewed the place I was writing about, not crucial to any argument.

The book is now on archive.org, so I could find the page number if I wanted.

@MartaHallard
That's OK (and I am not a scientist anyway )
DH is a stickler for applying clean scientific standards to literary research and some of the texts people think they can publish do cause him pain.
(On a side note: DC learned to quote correctly as soon as they started to read and write...)