What We Gain from a Good Bookstore

Re:What We Gain from a Good Bookstore by bombcar on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:12PM (#32371625)

A friend of my dad is a professional book hound, and he says it amuses him when he sees others who can’t understand what to do with a book that doesn’t have an isbn.

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Re:What We Gain from a Good Bookstore by dmd on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:34PM (#32372558)

When my wife and I wanted to catalog our modest home library (~1500 books) we were stunned when we discovered that the vast majority of web-based cataloging software assumes that all books have an ISBN. (Or did in 2015 or so). Thankfully LibraryThing does not make that assumption, and is great.

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Re:What We Gain from a Good Bookstore by bombcar on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#32377689)

It was only standardized in 1970 and is only “required” if you want to sell through bookstore channels - many printed items aren’t.

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