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.
I have a few dozen books in my readerware DB taht have no ISBNs. E.E. Doc Smith "Skylark of Valeron" and "Lens" books from the 70s :-) _______________________________________________ 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/
