[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/2009 2:10:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
wikimail at inbox.org writes:


> But the link should go to a generic page which potentially works with 
> more sites than just Google Books, like [[Special:BookSources]].>>

I like that.  Make Google Books just one of the options.  I can see a 
potential problem if we're trying to cite a convenience link directly to a page 
number and the book has multiple editions.  We'd need to know the ISBN.  If 
the repository is Google Books, does it actually state the ISBN or give some 
way to find it easily?

It wouldn't be a good thing if we make it much more complex, nobody would 
do it, and we'd have a maintenance nightmare.