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dfgjdfglkgpw publisher websites where you can't search by ISBN. Especially when, after you turn up your thing via title search, the ISBN is there on the page, so it's not just that the data is absent (which would also be stupid and annoying), it's that they apparently haven't included it among what their search box is actually searching. ISBN of all things. I repeat, dfgjdfglkgpw.
(I do this a lot to snaffle back-cover/book-jacket copy and sometimes tables of contents to lessen my need to transcribe them into catalog records. I prefer to do this off publisher websites and not Amazon whenever possible.)
(I do this a lot to snaffle back-cover/book-jacket copy and sometimes tables of contents to lessen my need to transcribe them into catalog records. I prefer to do this off publisher websites and not Amazon whenever possible.)
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Date: Jun. 8th, 2016 04:22 pm (UTC)From:If I were building a book search, I think I'd think of ISBN as a search term pretty much right after title and author. It'd sure be more useful than, say, year of publication, or genre.
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Date: Jun. 8th, 2016 06:37 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: Jun. 9th, 2016 12:01 am (UTC)From:What—
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Primary key? Synthetic primary key, even if only externally synthetic? Yes? A tiny cake with “INDEX ME” written on it, isn't it? Aaaaa lack of communication between domain knowledge people and presentation design people aaaaa *kaboom*