Richard Cameron wrote:
2) The "generally" means that some books have multiple editions with
multiple ISBNs. So, in some cases, a book will have different ISBNs in
different countries. Other than doing string matching on the title, and
authors, I'm not sure how to map international editions of the same
book down to each other (or whether that's even desirable).
I don't know whether it is desirable either, but the mapping is doable.
Simply use the xISBN web service:
http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/xisbn/
Speaking of del.icio.us and Amazon integration, I recently transferred
my 1200+ item Amazon wishlist to del.icio.us, because the Amazon
wishlist management tools are so shitty. Following the lead of Alf
Eaton's rvw service, I wrote a script that tagged each item with
urn:asin:whatever, the type of item and the year of release, plus a set
of tags derived from the Amazon browse nodes for the item. The result is
a wishlist I can actually use now:
http://del.icio.us/rybesh/wishlist
An an unexpected side effect is that it supercharged my tag set with a
nice stock of places, years, and genres which I now use to tag other
URLs as well. I would have been wary of doing this before the advent of
tag bundles, autocompletion and the improved tagging UI, but now a
thousand tags is quite manageable.
Next step: a Greasemonkey script that 1) changes the functionality of
the "Add to wishlist" button on Amazon pages so that it posts to
del.icio.us, and 2) displays Amazon thumbnails next to Amazon URLs on
del.icio.us.
Cheers,
Ryan
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