   Book Tag
  I've noticed recently that I've been posting many book links, generally to books not listed in gamedev's book pages. To be nice, I've been copying the GDNet link to amazon with gdnet as the referer and replacting the ISBN with the book I want to link to. While this works, it's tedious and means I have to look many places before I post a link (to ensure there isn't a book page for it, to find a link to amazon with the referer set, etc) and also has limitations (I'm too much work to make a link to every amazon site, etc).It would be nice to have some other way to link to books where I could supply the ISBN (and, if it would be difficult to automatically look up from the ISBN, the title) to a special tag that would either link to the book pages entry (if there is one) or link to a page with all the store links filled in appropriately(with gdnet as a referer) if there isn't a book page on it. Perhaps something of the form [BOOK=ISBN]Title[/BOOK]In addition to giving GDNet a tiny bit of extra income (if everybody used it, gdnet would probably be a referer quite often), it could also help point out books that should be added to the book pages since the server could record either uses of the tag or when people click on it to see which books are generating the generic pages.[Edited by - Extrarius on December 1, 2005 6:50:57 PM]
  I like it, that's a good idea.   