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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.

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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.