New function: Bookmark ISBN?

[jonassekamane]

Hi, i use del.icio.us to keep track of all my wishes. And on my wish-list i have a lot of books
- but the URLs often changes before christmas arrives and i can get my gifts or i get around
to ordering the books myself.

The books i refer to are the same, but the shop og publisher has altered the url for the
specific book. Then i thought: What if i could just bookmark the ISBN instead of an URL, and
when my family (around christmas-time) visit my del.iciu.os wish-list, they can simply click
on the title and be redirected to a/any shop that has my book? Eureka! No broken URLs and a
smile on my face when i unwrap my gifts :)

Hope you will consider this new feature - i'am sure i can be useful for other things than
wish-lists.

[Henrik Nyh]

On 3/29/08, jonassekamane <bonnabrand@...> wrote:
> Hi, i use del.icio.us to keep track of all my wishes. And on my wish-list i have a lot of books
>  - but the URLs often changes before christmas arrives and i can get my gifts or i get around
>  to ordering the books myself.
>
>  The books i refer to are the same, but the shop og publisher has altered the url for the
>  specific book.

Wow, that sucks. Surely this must be uncommon? I bookmark a lot of
books to my wishlist and I haven't noticed links breaking.

What you could do is link to some price agent. I'm not sure what there
is in Denmark, but for the Swedish market there is
http://bok.compricer.se and a few more. One can do ISBN searches, and
that specific site has nice URLs, too, so I might bookmark
"http://bok.compricer.se/0151011079" with "0151011079" being an ISBN.
People that want to gift me will then have working links to a number
of online book sellers, and will also see which one has the best
price.

>Then i thought: What if i could just bookmark the ISBN instead of an URL, and
>  when my family (around christmas-time) visit my del.iciu.os wish-list, they can simply click
>  on the title and be redirected to a/any shop that has my book? Eureka! No broken URLs and a
>  smile on my face when i unwrap my gifts :)
>
>  Hope you will consider this new feature - i'am sure i can be useful for other things than
>  wish-lists.

This sounds like too specific a feature for del.icio.us, in my
opinion. You could use a fake machine tag
(http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875), perhaps,
something like iso:isbn=0151011079, and then build a tool to do what
you want.

You might be interested in (my) http://del.ishli.st, by the way. It
would be nice to add some sort of ISBN smarts to that, actually. I'll
put it on my to-do list.

[Britta Gustafson]

That's an interesting idea, but it'd probably be kind of complicated to
implement inside Delicious itself - it's built around (and focused on)
bookmarking URLs, mostly of web pages.

Here are a couple other ways I can think of to solve this problem,
though.

When I want to bookmark a book, I usually save and tag the Amazon page
for it. I don't remember any of those Amazon links breaking, and some of
them on my wishlist are as much as a couple years old. :)

Or, you could take the Wikipedia approach. The main explanation page for
how Wikipedia handles ISBNs is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ISBN - but my general idea is
that you could type the ISBN into
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources and bookmark the
resulting page, which gives the reader a variety of links to places for
obtaining the book. Here's an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780470037850

Hope this helps!

Britta
Delicious community manager intern

--- In ydn-delicious@..., "jonassekamane" <bonnabrand@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, i use del.icio.us to keep track of all my wishes. And on my wish-list i have a lot of
books
> - but the URLs often changes before christmas arrives and i can get my gifts or i get
around
> to ordering the books myself.
>
> The books i refer to are the same, but the shop og publisher has altered the url for the
> specific book. Then i thought: What if i could just bookmark the ISBN instead of an URL,
and
> when my family (around christmas-time) visit my del.iciu.os wish-list, they can simply
click
> on the title and be redirected to a/any shop that has my book? Eureka! No broken URLs
and a
> smile on my face when i unwrap my gifts :)
>
> Hope you will consider this new feature - i'am sure i can be useful for other things than
> wish-lists.
>

[Chris Roos-3]

>
> Hi, i use del.icio.us to keep track of all my wishes. And on my wish-list i
> have a lot of books
>  - but the URLs often changes before christmas arrives and i can get my
> gifts or i get around
>  to ordering the books myself.
>
Although common - it's bad practice to change published URLs,
especially if the relevant redirects aren't added to ensure that the
published URLs still work.

>  The books i refer to are the same, but the shop og publisher has altered
> the url for the
>  specific book. Then i thought: What if i could just bookmark the ISBN
> instead of an URL, and
>  when my family (around christmas-time) visit my del.iciu.os wish-list, they
> can simply click
>  on the title and be redirected to a/any shop that has my book? Eureka! No
> broken URLs and a
>  smile on my face when i unwrap my gifts :)
>

I'm not sure how much help it is but you could bookmark the ISBN
URN[1] and then provide a tool (maybe something built into
del.ishli.st or similar) that does something useful with these
bookmarks.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3187.txt

>  Hope you will consider this new feature - i'am sure i can be useful for
> other things than
>  wish-lists.
>
It definitely sounds like something that's too specific to be added to
del.icio.us (imo)

Chris