I agree with Keeska: often the ISBN of the book is by far the easiest way to search for it, what with vague titles, duplicate or incomplete authors on various websites not to mention "smart" search filters which give me complete rubbish results just because the word 'The' is in the title. I know if I hit the ISBN number, no matter what, if they have that specific book in store it'll show up - which is a great help.
With different ISBN's for all different formats there is no telling what might come up, if at all - you might think your favourite site does not even offer the book you are looking for just because they only have the ePub version and you have been searching for the mobi one. I already dislike the fact that ISBN's given by references are always the paper edition and I'll have to find the associated electronic version myself, it would be good not to add yet another layer of distinction to that.
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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
(12 characters allows for only 1 trillion possible numbers).
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You do realise, if there are 10 books released
every second we will still have over 3000 years to go before that number runs out? 1 trillion really, really is a big number
