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Equally remarkable: there are Tinyurl links to Amazon books in the post from 17 years ago that still resolve to the books’ page on Amazon!
by ycombinete 2y ago
Equally remarkable: there are Tinyurl links to Amazon books in the post from 17 years ago that still resolve to the books’ page on Amazon!
- dredmorbius 2y agoThe remarkable part is that TinyURL still works. Amazon's book look-up is by ISBN, which is fixed at time of assignment, and would be unlikely to change. You can look up the ISBN on any similarly indexed site. Wikipedia's Special:Booksources page is one of those, and points at other resources including Google Books, Open Library, Amazon (recursion!), and numerous others: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=0393316041 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=03933...>