Comments on: Glitches in collecting book data based on ISBNs

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:28:11 +0000

I’ve tried searching the Amazon catalogue with a couple of Indian reprint books and it worked well for me. I cooked up a small script back then using the tarzan library. You can give that a try: http://tarzan-aws.com/

By: Rasmus Kaj

Rasmus Kaj — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:58:22 +0000

I use http://librarything.com/ as a great way to both look up and keep track of books by isbn.

By: sankarshan

sankarshan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:30:07 +0000

@Micheas – thank you for dropping by. I’ll check up the resource.

By: sankarshan

sankarshan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:17:15 +0000

@Susmit – thank you. Will look into this. Or, since Kushal was looking for this, would point him to the resource.

By: Micheas Herman

Micheas Herman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:33:29 +0000

I would try looking up the books on amazon.

Amazon released a php library to access their api at

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/642.html

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By: susmit

susmit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:58:08 +0000

Try http://isbndb.com/
This generally works for my Indian LPEs.