- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:01:03 +0100
James Graham schrieb: > FWIW, I know, offhand, the ISBN of exactly zero books (whereas I could > probably quote from several). Therefore it would take considerable > effort for me to find the ISBN of a book I was quoting (I would have to > spend time looking it up on the book or online somewhere), then more Amazon will tell you. > effort to carefully copy the human unfriendly string into whatever tool > was demanding this apparently superfluous information. I would imagine > that "three seconds" is an underestimate of about an order of magnitude. 30 seconds sounds more reasonable. > This last bit is the killer; people hate doing mundane things even when > they have to (I've never met anyone who enjoys filling in BibTeX > citations, for example and that is of comparable difficulty to the > process you advocate), and certainly won't do if if they see no benefit > for their efforts (even if some minority group will). Best regards, Julian
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