Bookflipper is a tiny web app that serves up pricing information for used books from the Amazon API. My friend Brian has been picking up cheap books and selling them on Amazon for a profit. Now when he’s wondering if a purchase is going to pay off, he can just pull out his cell phone and enter the book’s ISBN into Bookflipper to see what the market is like.
The page size is usually between 0.5-0.6k, thanks in part to some output buffer trickery. Of course, the preview image is much bigger but it seemed too useful to get rid of.
My name is Joey Nelson. I'm a web developer living in Raleigh, NC and working with Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby, PHP, jQuery and some other stuff. More about me.
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