On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Andrew Hume wrote: > 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.
true, but that still leaves the first problem. Even in my personal collection (before it gets combined with those of other people in the house) contains duplicate titles. David Lang > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > ------------------ > Andrew Hume (best -> Telework) +1 732-886-1886 > [email protected] (Work) +1 973-360-8651 > AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and LOPSA > > > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
