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The International Standard Book Number is an ISO standardized identifier for books. It consists of 10 or 13 digits (including 'X'), of which the last is a check character.

ISBNs are assigned by publishers to identify books across systems.

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What is the technical term for the input used to calculate a checkdigit?

For example: code = '7777-5'; input = code.substring(0, 4); // Returns '7777' checkdigit = f(input); // f() produces a checkdigit assert.areEqual(code, input + "-" + checkdigit) Is there a technical term for input used…
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How can I get the author,price and title by knowing the ISBN search using amazon?

How can I get the author,price and title by knowing the ISBN search using amazon in codeigniter? and I been trying to sign up for the AProduct Advertising API registration for about 2 days, every time I get an error: We're sorry! There was an error…
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Retrieve ISBN from eBay listing via Shopping API

I'm trying to use the eBay shopping API to try and retrieve the ISBNs from listings for books. I already have the eBay IDs for the listings which I'm interested in. Likely that most will have the ISBNs included in the Item Specifics for the listing…
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ISBNs are used as primary key, now I want to add non-book things to the DB - should I migrate to EAN?

I built an inventory database where ISBN numbers are the primary keys for the items. This worked great for a while as the items were books. Now I want to add non-books. some of the non-books have EANs or ISSNs, some do not. It's in PostgreSQL with…
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ISBN -> bookdata Lookup to fill in a database

Ok, I wanting to database a small library. I've only had limited experience with databases, and none with querying from a webserver. I'm going to want to retrieve information like title, Publisher, maybe author, description the simplest way I can…
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What is a good standard to share book data via a web service?

I am managing a database filled by hundreds of publishers for both books and ebooks. I would like to provide a free JSON or XML web-service to allow others sites (bookshops, library or whatever) or apps to access those data using an ISBN. I made a…
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Use Powershell to get book metadata from Amazon

I want to use the Amazon Product Advertising API to create a Web Request with Powershell which submits the ISBN / ANSI number and returns the Book Metadata. (Title, Author,...) So far I have createt a Account to geht the AssociateTag, AWSAccessKeyId…
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optimal way to use open graph for ebooks

I am self-publishing an ebook I read the types for open graph protocol http://ogp.me/#types In open graph protocol, for book namespace http://ogp.me/ns/book there are the following attributes. book - Namespace URI:…
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How do I check if an input contains an isbn using javascript

I need a script that will test an input field's contents to see if it contains an ISBN. I found a few examples of this, but none of them strip the dashes. I need this to happen or my search results don't work. I have the else part of the script…
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How do you get category info of a book from ISBNdb.com?

I am able to easily get book info: http://isbndb.com/api/books.xml?access_key=THEKEY&results=details&index1=isbn&value1=9781849152990 And I can easily look up…
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How to get ISBN number from .mobi file with python

Is there any way of fetching the ISBN number from a .mobi book using python? Maybe there is a way of reading the .mobi files directely with python and search for 10 ints which is the ISBN number? if I open the mobi file with notepad i can find the…
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How to retrieve an url to a book cover only knowing its isbn

is there a way to obtain an URL to a cover of a book when only knowing the book's API? I have tried two approaches yet. First, https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers which does not work for me since they did not find any covers for the…
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Is there an easy way to add dashes to an ISBN in Python?

I have a column of 13 digit ISBN numbers (e.g. 1234567890123) saved as strings. To display them in a report, I need to add hyphens, e.g. (123-4-567-89012-3). I use a function to add the dashes before displaying, e.g. def format_isbn(isbn): …
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How to decode a barcode into ISBN?

For this question with illustrative purpose I will write Javascript code, but that's just an illustration, the question is language-agnostic. I need to write a function which takes a barcode text (not the image) as an input and returns the ISBN as…
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Detect input text as ISBN EAN UPC

I want to build a input form in which a user inserts a code and depending on what is introduced, show a message like UPS (or EAN/ISBN/GTIN ) code found or This code is not valid. Have been looked for a library that can detect something like this but…
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