Bogdan Giusca wrote:
I suggest that we use the name instead of the ISBN, because it can be seen more clearly in the text, when reading the wiki-text. Also, there are many books (especially older books, but not only), which have no ISBN number and some which have many different editions with different ISBNs.
There is still the problem with two books with the same title, in which case we need to add the author, too, for disambiguation, but I think this problem is less on the kind of books we use for reference. Shorter titles are used especially for fiction.
I have never been keen on ISBNs either. In addition to older works that never had an ISBN in the first place, works with a long history of different editions can have any number of ISBNs, and at some point it would be helpful to be able to compare various editions.
Ec