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Old 09-15-2014, 06:56 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
I can't imagine why would you want to do that.
Indeed. book_id is just an identifier, having it be ordered and contiguous is about as pertinent as doing it for ISBNs or UUIDs.

I can understand why you want to do it: they're simple, low-digits integers, and our brains just _want_ to see them in order and contiguous. But that's the point: you shouldn't even have to _see_ them in the first place. Just ignore them when you do.

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