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I've just figured something out, after a morning of cataloguing Italian books on mysticism or is that books on italian mysticism? They're in Italian anyway. There's mysticism involved on some level.
This might not be a healthy occupation if taken to extremes.
I am starting to think that I can see patterns in the ISBN numbers!
And these aren't the new ISBN-13 numbers. These are the old 10 digit ones. So 88=Italy, 7229 etc = the publisher, the next three are the number of the book and the final one is a verification number. Or something like that. You see why they had to extend.
But the worrying part is that I start going "how many 8s and 7s were in that one? That's the same sequence backwards isn't it? Oh, no, but it is on this one. What if I put the two together?" and it all starts to get a bit bewildering.
Yes, I think I have been doing this for too long today. Thank God I am going to my fencing class tonight.
Just what the world needs - something pointy in the hands of someone like me!!! :D
ps I wrote NEW bits for Moy Tura!!!! I posted a chapter on NB. There is this thing called progress happening again. Only a little bit perhaps, but it is definitely something!!!!
This might not be a healthy occupation if taken to extremes.
I am starting to think that I can see patterns in the ISBN numbers!
And these aren't the new ISBN-13 numbers. These are the old 10 digit ones. So 88=Italy, 7229 etc = the publisher, the next three are the number of the book and the final one is a verification number. Or something like that. You see why they had to extend.
But the worrying part is that I start going "how many 8s and 7s were in that one? That's the same sequence backwards isn't it? Oh, no, but it is on this one. What if I put the two together?" and it all starts to get a bit bewildering.
Yes, I think I have been doing this for too long today. Thank God I am going to my fencing class tonight.
Just what the world needs - something pointy in the hands of someone like me!!! :D
ps I wrote NEW bits for Moy Tura!!!! I posted a chapter on NB. There is this thing called progress happening again. Only a little bit perhaps, but it is definitely something!!!!
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