Comment by spondyl
1 year ago
I don't think it's the tool that's the issue, I think it's the book itself?
If you search the ISBN on the web, you'll get "Zero to One Hundred" with the cover of "Built to Grow" and vice versa.
There's also "Experiment, Build, Scale" which is the book that the visualisation shows, also with the same ISBN attributed to the previous two.
Experiment, Build, Scale seems to be the only book of Stephanie's that is in Google Books while Worldcat has "Zero to One Hundred" with the cover art for "Built to Grow".
Most of the online bookstore pages have this mess so I wouldn't blame the tool for what seems like an upstream data quality issue.
> Most of the online bookstore pages have this mess so I wouldn't blame the tool for what seems like an upstream data quality issue.
I think that's an uncharitable read of the GP's comment. I read it as curiosity about how the upstream data issues present in the tool, which also interests the part of my brain that likes to solve minor mysteries.
Sorry I didn't mean to make it seem like I think the tool is at fault.
I just think it's interesting that the book title shows differently on the shelf depending on whether you reach it via an ISBN search, vs. if you discover it by panning from a nearby book.