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Internet utilities :: ISBN Lookup

Behind the scenes:

St. Vincent dePaul Society of Lane County, Inc. asked me for a way to simplify looking up book prices by their barcodes. Previously, they were going to multiple online book retailers, and entering the ISBN by hand into the search field.

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This utility allows them to collect a batch of barcodes using a standard scanner, export the results as a plain-text file, and batch process the entire list through one or more book retailer web sites.

This tool was designed in a modular fashion to enable adding more book vendors over time, without having to recreate the entire program from scratch.