With a mac and deliciouslibrary software you can just use a webcam to read the barcode, and it gets everything about the book, including a cover picture if available, off the web. Quite magical!
Yup. Sadly, I don't have quite that sophisticated level of kit. Also, many books sans ISBN which require manual entry.
I enjoy the physical handling of books anyway. The benefit of today's activity is that all Looby Loo's books that were on the floor or in her bed (20-odd in bed, probably at least one per doll or soft toy) will be reshelved again.
Welcome to ISBN-13, then. No more silly base-11 check digits.
All ISBN-10 codes will have a corresponding ISBN-13 code. The difference is that there will be 978 prefixed to the code, and the final digit, that check digit that one time in 11 is an X, becomes a true base-10 check digit.
I actually have a book in front of me that displays both.
Last night, I happened to be talking to Colin Smythe (Terry P's agent, but also a publisher) who has software that really saves typing - it works by the operator typing the first three letters of the first word of a title, the first two of the second, when paperwork comes in.
It's much more tedious when only the ISBN is shown, and he's not wonderfully keen about the extension to 13 keystrokes.
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I enjoy the physical handling of books anyway. The benefit of today's activity is that all Looby Loo's books that were on the floor or in her bed (20-odd in bed, probably at least one per doll or soft toy) will be reshelved again.
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All ISBN-10 codes will have a corresponding ISBN-13 code. The difference is that there will be 978 prefixed to the code, and the final digit, that check digit that one time in 11 is an X, becomes a true base-10 check digit.
I actually have a book in front of me that displays both.
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It's much more tedious when only the ISBN is shown, and he's not wonderfully keen about the extension to 13 keystrokes.
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Shan't bother unscreening thew first try ;-)
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