The library has grown unwieldy now, and too big to haul to any meetings really except Sunday afternoon meetings such as at Syleham (short staggering distance from car boot to table top). (Thanks to everyone who has donated books lately!) So I draw everyone's attention to http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LibraryBooklist which, now I look at it, ought to have ISBNs listed and a short description of each book, to aid people in making their selections.
The idea is that those who would like books from the library place their requests with me or Adam (quinophex) and we will deliver to the next meeting, whenever that may be. If you live outside the Norwich area and can't attend Norwich meetings, we'd appreciate it if you'd cover the postage costs for us to post the book to you.
Books can be returned, more or less at leisure (no time limit on the loan as such, in practice six months is about the limit) in the same fashion, or posted, or whatever as long as we get them back :)
I will endeavour to get descriptions up as soon as possible.
/Kirsten
Yah ISBN is good, because then you can link directly to several well known book sites through just a simple url link - not that I've got a library database under construction or anything...
the only problem is the dashes.. I have a **great** book collection called soho square. The second one's number is 0-7475-0506-3 Amazon would want it in this format: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747505063/ where powles books want it as http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0747505063-0 . Note its only the strange whacky books which dont have images associated with them.
http://bibliophil.org/tools/isbn.asp is also a very good page if you want to make a script to generate entire lists at once. The ending idea is you only need tostore the isbn and the books location - everything else is found out for you.
J
On 2004-07-10 13:22:31 +0100 James Taylor j.e.taylor@uea.ac.uk wrote:
The second one's number is 0-7475-0506-3 Amazon would want it in this format:
Amazon use software patents http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/amaz0818/
Although I feel FFII sometimes go a bit far, I doubt they're lying. Please don't support Amazon, much less pander to their software's needs.