21 Nov 2002 BenFrantzDale   » (Journeyer)

In my lack of free time I made a Perl/CGI script that queries Amazon's XML interface to give you (partial) BibTeX entries. You can try it out here: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~ben/cgi-bin/AmazonBibTeX/show_bibtex.pl?asin=0201134489 The asin CGI field takes the ASIN number (or list of numbers) for any product Amazon knows about. (Apparently ASIN=ISBN for books.)

I wish Amazon had full publisher info like loc.gov does, but loc.gov's catalog doesn't have easy XML access...

I got pictures back from my dive on Saturday, but the camera apparently didn't work right, so only half of them even tried to come out. Oh well.

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