KB, a lot of paperbacks have a bar code on the inside of the cover as well as the one on the back. In those cases, they're two different bar codes, and only the inside bar code is the ISBN (the one on the back is more like a grocery-store bar code, with a completely unrelated number).

(Confusingly enough, if a book only has the barcode on the back, then that one almost always is an ISBN.)

When I worked at the bookstore, I got really good at typing in ISBN numbers using the keypad and my right hand, so much so that I get confused if I switch over to the phone number keypad, which is reversed (1-3 on the top row instead of the bottom). So, when I was adding in books to my LibraryThing account, ISBNs were the easiest thing to key in.

That reminds me, I have to add in the five books I got at the used book sale last month to my account, so I'm up-to-date.

I'ma have to LibraryThing. Darn it.

Necesito mas bookshelvos.

I think we'll do the Library thingie when we move into our place.

Provided that ever happens.

Raq, do you want to borrow a CueCat? I've got one...

Hey, timeline stuff for Harry Potter. (I don't know why I think this is important - but apparently I do and need reassurance that I have it right.)

50-some years prior to HP - Hagrid and Tom M. Riddle were at Hogwarts.

Almost 50 years prior to HP - Eileen Prince was at Hogwarts.

At least 10 years after that - Snape, J. Potter, Lily, Remus and Sirius were at Hogwarts.

Is that right?

Oooh! While we're asking HP questions, someone remind me what a squib is?

Somebody with wizarding parents who displays no magical talent.

I have to admit that the most exciting thing about my day was signing up for HP7 at my new local bookstore.

Thanks, sumi. I'm bad with facts, so I'm going to let someone with a better memory than mine answer your questions.

Yay, megan!