ISBN

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An ISBN or International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier, re-used by some sites in custom URLs for redirects or searching for books and related data.

IndieWeb Examples

Tantek

Tantek Çelik marks up read posts with URLs of the form /isbn/########## which redirect to Amazon using asin.cc which he built.

Example: http://tantek.com/2015/360/t5/read-slashdot-interview-some-remarks

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill marks up books he wants to read with an ISBN URL that redirects to Open Library using https://github.com/mwhite/php-isbn/blob/master/Isbn.php

2023-01-18: I updated the default redirect to go to Open Library instead of Amazon

https://gregorlove.com/2023/01/reading-lovestar/

2017-04-05: Added an ISBN URL that redirects to Amazon.com

https://gregorlove.com/2017/01/want-to-read-bad-paper/

Tools

ISBN Converter

ISBN Converter (includes proper hyphenation)
ISBN converter to convert from ISBN-13 to ISBN-10

ISBN barcode generator

ISBN-13 Bookland Barcode Generator

Others

asin.cc Convert ISBN-10 to Amazon shortlink
ISBN verification and conversion code on Github

History and description

ISBN numbers began use in 1970. Numbers assigned after 2007-01-01 are 13 digits long and known as ISBN-13 while those prior to that date are 10 digits long and known as ISBN-10. Different ISBNs are assigned to each edition and substantial variation of printed books, e-books, and even audio books (except for reprintings when there are no substantive changes) thus a hardback, paperback, .pdf, .mobi (e-book), and .epub (e-book) of the same book should all have different ISBNs.

ISBN-13 numbers are comprised of 5 groups of digits each typically separated by a dash. They indicate, respectively from left to right: Bookland Country Code, Group, Publisher, the specific title, and a check digit.

Sessions

Previous IndieWebCamp related sessions:

2022/Pop-ups/Personal_Libraries#Book_identifiers