Books and books

I recently completed another horrendous paper for my MBA program and the more of these things I write, the more I become aware of my hatred of fixed styles and form factors that are outdated. one prime example is that a reference for a book needs only be the ISBN. thats it, nothing else. in fact, its more useful as an ISBN number than it is in the crappy reference format as there is still some ambiguity as to what is really being referenced. with that in mind, i figured someone had to have and ISBN to reference converted and and I found ottobib.com (and ottobib-wikipedia). feed in an ISBN and out pops the reference, I so love that.

for the really strange book lover, I give you this strange site a ran across, librarything.com which includes some strange tool to find related books if you can't find the exact one your looking for, or a different print edition. it looked like complete nonsense to me but I have a feeling theres a few of you out there that would use something like this, so have at it. (did i mention it is strange?)