Bogdan Giusca wrote:
I suggest that we use the name instead of the ISBN,
because
it can be seen more clearly in the text, when reading the
wiki-text. Also, there are many books (especially older
books, but not only), which have no ISBN number and some
which have many different editions with different ISBNs.
There is still the problem with two books with the same title,
in which case we need to add the author, too, for disambiguation,
but I think this problem is less on the kind of books we use for
reference. Shorter titles are used especially for fiction.
I have never been keen on ISBNs either. In addition to older works that
never had an ISBN in the first place, works with a long history of
different editions can have any number of ISBNs, and at some point it
would be helpful to be able to compare various editions.
Ec