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Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

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·February 25, 2025
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rahimnathwani

This is amazing.

One thing I found odd.

I searched for 'Stubborn Attachments' which worked.

On the same bookshelf there are several other Stripe Press books.

One of them is called Zero to One Hundred, by Stephanie Friedman.

When you search that book on Amazon, it has a different title, which I guess is reasonable as the book hasn't been published yet and they may not have finalized the decision: https://a.co/d/bQX5CNf

Here's where it gets weird:

- if you search for the book 'Zero to one hundred' (the title shown on the 'shelf') it doesn't come up

- if you search for the book by its ISBN, it does come up, but the name displayed in the search results is yet another alternate title. And the bookshelf displays that title. So the same part of the bookshelf looks different depending on what you searched for.

I haven't yet read the blog post about how this impressive visualization works, so I don't have an idea of why this is the case.

dylan604

I had a Pavlovian response to reach for the defrag program at first sight of the top image.

ofou

My most sincere love to all shadow libraries out there, you're doing god's work.