I am, slowly, slowly, graduating from using BD just as a basic
library, and learning all manner of delightful little features in it.
While doing so, I came across Alex Montgomery's ISBN lookup scripts.
My suggestion -- they are so good and useful that either their
functionality be included in the core application so users immediately
know of their existence or the scripts be bundled with the
application's installer (I know there is no installer right now, but
if there were one) that would put them in the requisite places.

A couple of related mods --

1. would be nice to look up via DOI as well (digital object identifier
-- in this day and age of digital repositories, DOI are all the rage,
and do make for a very nice unique locator); and

2. would be nice to have a container for "artwork" in BD, and then
have the scripts grab the artwork as well -- usually this is in the
case of book covers. Librarything does this rather well.

Nevertheless, my compliments to Alex for the scripts.

-- 
Puneet Kishor

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