Not infrequently, I end up with a big list of technical books
(programming, databases, math, statistics, science, engineering, etc.)
I'd like to buy, maybe only 3 or 4, maybe 15 or more.
(It's not important exactly what books, but for flavor, stuff like
Date,
Grop,
Hyvaerinen,
Armstrong, or
Williams.)
Those sorts of technical books are often very expensive, and since I'd
prefer to buy many books rather than just a few, I am price sensitive.
So, I find 15 ISBNs I want on Amazon, now I want to plug those into
some service - all at once - that will search current prices
across many bookstores and find me the best deal. Except, I can't
find any such service!
I found no aggregators and only two online
bookstores that even let me enter more than one ISBN at a time,
bookpool.com and
softpro.com.
(On other sites, the errors from entering more than one ISBN at a time
can be mildy entertaining.) And neither of those bookstores carries
more than 1 or 2 books out of the 15 I happen to be trying to find
right now - which is useless.
So, is there a better solution out there? What do other compulsive
mass quantity book buyers here do?
