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'Book Source' your ISBN numbers through Ubiquity!
Hello,
I used Ubiquity for a day now, and I love it! I'm looking to contribute obviously, like we all should ;)
Today I searched for a book using the ISBN number.
I can of course look it up on amazon, but I want to find out which library has it. This involves me opening up a new tab, going to wikipedia, and going to book sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...). Maybe a fun feature to add is to be able to Ubiq 'ISBN 1871890306 in San Francisco', and then you would get all the libraries in SF that are in 'Book Sources' that have the certain book.
I'm still trying out the commands tuturial, so I'm working on it, but if I can think of it, somebody can program it ;)
Any replys would be great (tips,hints, encouragements, whatever!)
Greets,
Moloch
I used Ubiquity for a day now, and I love it! I'm looking to contribute obviously, like we all should ;)
Today I searched for a book using the ISBN number.
I can of course look it up on amazon, but I want to find out which library has it. This involves me opening up a new tab, going to wikipedia, and going to book sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...). Maybe a fun feature to add is to be able to Ubiq 'ISBN 1871890306 in San Francisco', and then you would get all the libraries in SF that are in 'Book Sources' that have the certain book.
I'm still trying out the commands tuturial, so I'm working on it, but if I can think of it, somebody can program it ;)
Any replys would be great (tips,hints, encouragements, whatever!)
Greets,
Moloch
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Inappropriate?Cool!
You might want to add command ideas to the suggestions page on the wiki and, if you succeed in creating a command, add it to the 'commands in the wild' page on the wiki. -
Inappropriate?Added it to the suggestions page on the wiki, the creation of the command from my side will take a while, still need to learn about it ;) If any one feels like programming it, post here about it! -
Inappropriate?I just had to search for a book myself and was so sure Ubiquity would already have it that I pulled it up, but no suck luck :) ISBN numbers are one of those things that mean little to us humans but serve as a beautiful way to identify a particular book. Selecting the ISBN number and telling Ubiquity to "find near me" for example would absolutely rock. or even a greasemonkey script that detected ISBN numbers and converted it into a microformat which Ubiquity could then use....
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?This is really cool! I was just thinking again about this yesterday. Especially with create-new-search-command (http://tinyurl.com/akub3a), you can actually look it up in the wikipedia-books section (see link in first page). But there is no central search engine to look in all the librarys on that page...Maybe ubiquity could search every website in e.g. the US and then generate a webpage, but I'm not sure if Ubiquity can render a webpage for us (is it allowed to do that within it's constraints, since right now it is just using other webpages?)
Any ideas?
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Here's another site that you can use ISBN on : http://isbn.nu/
I created a search using the create-new-search command, but the results are not displayed in real time.
Now, if only Ubiquity could interpret and display the results...
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Good idea! Yea, I'm not entirely sure how the whole display results thing works... My initial idea was about libraries, but this seems cool too!
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