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cliffchew84 / SG-Lib-Books

This is a side project of a book lover from Singapore, who wants a quick way to view the availability of library books from the Singapore libraries
MIT License
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Show ISBN to user #84

Open elliotwutingfeng opened 9 months ago

elliotwutingfeng commented 9 months ago

From time to time, NLB disposes of old books and removes them from their database. The ISBN would make it easier for users to look up their books online, especially if it has a very common title like "Investing".

cliffchew84 commented 9 months ago

Let me think about this implementation. Previously I realise BRN (which was previously named BID) was unique to each title, while a single title could have multiple ISBNs. Currently I am just the first ISBN of any API result from the NLB API to make additional APIs on the books' availability.

I didn't add ISBN information to the user in the end because I was thinking the multiple ISBN situation from the NLB API data may confuse end users.