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Originally uploaded by jeangenie.

This is indeed a flawless lifehack: John Udell’s Library Lookup bookmarklet.

It’s so elegant: find a book on amazon, click the bookmarklet, and instantly display search results from *your* library for the ISBN of the book you are currently viewing.

I have been playing with it for hours, charging through my wishlist like there’s no tomorrow.

I wonder if I can set it up for a meta-catalogue like Kinetica as well, without going through the authentication rigmarole? That would be good, because I could go from “oooh, that looks cool” to “stupid ****ng library doesn’t have anything i need” to “aha! I can get it in a week from UQ instead” in about 4 seconds. Keeping the moodswings to a minimum.

Nothing, however, will get me out of the trudge up the very, very long hill to our library.

Thanks to David Brake, plunderer of book repositories, for the link.