On Monday 11 June 2007 11:21, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > I'm going to play around with this, not because I have any use for > ISBN barcodes, but just for the intellectual challenge. They're > quite complex (!), and one of the more interesting asides is that > one wonders if there is a mild "conspiracy" to not let people make > them themselves. Googling results in a multitude of sites to do > this for you, or buy software to do this for you. > Thank God for Wikipedia! > Well with bookland.py you _are_ making it yourself. Someone has produced the tool and is giving it away. If you can't handle keying in a simple bookland.py command the same party will produce the barcode for you online, again for free. All the specs are public domain. If you want to reinvent this particular wheel have at it. No wikapedia needed in this case.
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