I have edited Booksources and put a functioning link in that searchs ABE for ISBN. It links to advanced search page and is also functional for searching for books without ISBNs. However the ISBN link does not reach the edited page unless it has a valid ISBN. Please consider allowing access to the page using some link like ISBN n/a
Fred
From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 02:25:43 -0600 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Please edit [[Wikipedia:Book sources]]
Point your link at:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookSearchPL
ABE gives the option of finding books published before the ISBN system was instituted.
Fred
From: Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:29:36 -0700 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Please edit [[Wikipedia:Book sources]]
James D. Forrester wrote:
My favourite online bookseller -- Advanced Book Exchange (http://www.abebooks.com) -- is not listed, & if appropriate I think this website should be included.
Sadly, as their books are second hand, ABE don't seem to offer an ISBN reference (each book lot has its own local ID instead). Because of this, we couldn't add it (AFAICT; IMBW and if so, someone please correct me :-)).
Of course we could add a link; it just wouldn't be ISBN-indexed, so you'd want to add a note telling the user that they'll have to search the book by title / author manually.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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