This fellow has come up with a really, really useful Web 2.0-type service called Book Jetty for book lovers in Singapore. What it does is that you can search for a book on Amazon, and it'll also simultanously look for it in the National Library catalogue. Essentially, you can look for a book that you want and then see if it's available in the library. Or if you want a book from the library, you can at the same time find more info on the book in Amazon.
Useful eh? Absolute time-saver, I'd say. It's still in BETA so there may be some bugs and it may not be optimised in terms of speed. Still, it's a terribly useful application. Two thumbs up! Just hope that Amazon or NLB won't shut it down with silly reasons like "copyright".
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Thanks for the write up Gremlin. Amazon will absolutely not shut the site down, coz it's legal to use their web services. I've wrote to NLB as well, still waiting for their reply.
Btw, I just enhanced the site to allow user to check all book editions using xISBN service. Do check it out. Cheers.
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