I Wish...

Aug. 21st, 2006 02:19 pm
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... for a numeric keypad with an X--for all those pesky ISBN check digits.

Date: 2006-08-21 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com
With a mac and deliciouslibrary software you can just use a webcam to read the barcode, and it gets everything about the book, including a cover picture if available, off the web. Quite magical!

Date: 2006-08-21 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
Welcome to ISBN-13, then. No more silly base-11 check digits.

All ISBN-10 codes will have a corresponding ISBN-13 code. The difference is that there will be 978 prefixed to the code, and the final digit, that check digit that one time in 11 is an X, becomes a true base-10 check digit.

I actually have a book in front of me that displays both.

Date: 2006-08-22 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
Last night, I happened to be talking to Colin Smythe (Terry P's agent, but also a publisher) who has software that really saves typing - it works by the operator typing the first three letters of the first word of a title, the first two of the second, when paperwork comes in.

It's much more tedious when only the ISBN is shown, and he's not wonderfully keen about the extension to 13 keystrokes.

(Damn, session expired)

Date: 2006-08-23 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
*laugh*

Yes, I was a little surprised not to see the previous one, but then realised what had happened. I might do it myself.

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