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Demo Book Details from ISBN Greasemonkey Script

My recent post on a script that will autocomplete book information details given an ISBN was based on a script that only works on a page that lies behind the OU authentication system, (which is one way of making stuff freely available BUT limiting any understanding that users can get from it easily, I suppose...)

But as we're in the middle of a library mashup co-opetition at the moment, I thought I better post a version of the script that people can play with in case they want to reuse any part of it, or just pore over it to work out what bits they can reuse...

So here you go:

- a simple book details form;
- an associated Greasemonkey script that will, on clicking the GM appended 'get book details' link, look at the ISBN field of the form, pull out out the ISBN, fetch the book details from Amazon and paste them back in the form...