.com	.ca	.co.uk
ISBN-10	0060513551	0823025810	0060513551
Cover
By	Comickers Magazine (ed)	Design Exchange	Design Exchange
Publisher	Collins Design	Watson-Guptill Publications	HarperCollins Design International

In this case, if I was to remain using my script as is, the page link to the Canadian site would be wrong because the link would be pointed to “0060513551” and not its correct pointer at “0823025810”
Strangely enough, the book I’m reading has the UK site information but the .com cover showing the full extended title, Japanese Comickers: Draw Anime and Manga Like Japan’s Hottest Artists.

I have been thinking about rewriting my script so I could include links to other non-Amazon affiliate sites. Looks like this will be a required change even if I just stick with links to Amazon.com locales. Changing it would mean I can provide separate if needed links. Especially if I had to reference a book that a site didn’t carry. This way only places that carry it would show links. Currently my script only uses the one reference point (ISBN-10) to access the three affiliate sites I now use. I’ll have to create a new table in my MySQL database for different affilate sites, their ISBN/GTIN numbers or product page locations and create a reference link to the table with the rest of the book info.

A bit funny too with the lost in translation and incorrectly spelled items that can be found. Like the front page of one of the Books subsection has a graphic and link to Eight Million Wags to Die. Yes, it read “…Wags…”.

Is this the scientific average life span of dogs in terms of tail wagging? Is it a dog book about a 007 canine. Is there even a dog in it? I have no idea.

Turns out it should be Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block.

Actually this was more of a crack than a hack since it fudged up the creator Erik Benson’s servers. Thus mucking up other peoples’ sites and I’m not talking about just a handful of people here.

It was not until after reading this book I realized how much I really admire Orwell; inspired by his courage. I, myself, have even thought of and wanted to trek off with backpack to China/Thailand/Tibet. See the obscure sites not frequently visited by the tourist public. Except maybe the Great Wall or some of the temples. To go to the Highlands. Sleeping in a cheap little inns or find a safe secluded spot in the streets or in a hay loft only to be awakened in the morning by roosters. Bicycling off to see the Miao/Hmong hilltribe and spend a night or so. Hearing their “night calls” to each other in their language. They don’t have phones so they just yell to each other from out their windows during the nighttime when they’re at home. Yelling to their friends or pitching a little woo from their windows to their lovers. Since I live in an urban neighborhood, the “night calls” wouldn’t mean much. The people around here do that all the time only in street English. I don’t think I’ll get to see the Miao/Hmong tribe though. Somewhere on TV I heard that the way outsiders get to visit their village(s) is to drink some 200% proof vodka or something like that. Like an initiation.

I noticed that the Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data section in the front of the book contains the info: “Juvenile Literature”. From reading this book, I’m sure that Orwell would have been highly irked at this “juvenile” reference to categorize his books. When Animal Farm was released it received mixed reviews and misunderstanding. He actually went around to bookstores

…to remove it from the children’s shelves where it had been unwittingly placed by storeowners. (pg 84-85)

Despite the frequent use of some of his works being used as required reading in some schools, he never meant for any of his works to be interpreted in any way as juvenile.

A note of hilarity: an account where Orwell asked someone to dye all of his shirts blue… just to make his life just a bit less complicated!