Re: [LUG] Anyone fancy helping?

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:16:24PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
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> My latest project is finally at beta.
> http://www.isbn.org.uk/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/
> 
> After an idea from Neil (S), I decided to look into making a genuine MySQL 
> portal to ISBN details that is independent of any bookseller, gives only the 
> results you need, can be queried remotely for HTML, XML, SQL or MARC output 
> with a standard, static URL with a predictable query string and no cookies or 
> Javascript. It's early days so far and the database is tiny but it'll grow in 
> time.

It would probably be a good idea to allow both the 10 digit ISBN and
the 13 digit "bookland" EAN formats. Since the latter can easily be
obtained from a barcode reader.


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