the second problem can be easily dealt with.
assign your own ISBNs!
recall that the leading digits are essentially a publisher, and like
IP addresses,
big publishers have short numbers so they can have lost of titles.
so find a big publisher in a foreign country (whose books you won't
be cataloging)
and use their prefix and assign your own numbers from 1.
(many publishers more or less assign titles monotonically from 1 so
these
would liekly be older titles anyway).
i would pick something exotic like publishers of Lapp folk music lyrics,
or technical publishers in an odd area (like genetic endocrinology).
or a big publisher of russian chess books.
andrew
On Jan 20, 2010, at 5:18 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I've looked at readerware in the past, the one problem that I have had
with it is that it indexes everything by the ISBN, which doesn't
work if
you have multiple copies of the same book (or if you have a book
without a
ISBN in it)
I would love to find something that supported using my own item ID
(it's
easy to print barcode stickers and find readers to read them)
David Lang
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