Hacker News with Generative AI: ISBN

Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space (phiresky.github.io)
Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many books as possible.
Isbntools (github.com/xlcnd)
isbntools provides several useful methods and functions to validate, clean, transform, hyphenate and get metadata for ISBN strings.
Visualizing All ISBNs (annas-archive.org)
This picture is 1000×800 pixels. Each pixel represents 2,500 ISBNs. If we have a file for an ISBN, we make that pixel more green. If we know an ISBN has been issued, but we don’t have a matching file, we make it more red.