I finished my Node.js program that pulls book covers for my site and it works great! I decided not to search the library site since I couldn't consistently get an ISBN from a title search. I'm glad I failed at that because I found a WAY better way to go from title search to ISBN with Google's book search API.
This exercise really drives home the saying "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." The first version of this tool that I wrote back in 2004 was written in C#, spanned multiple files, and was all OO-y for no real reason. This version is simple and gets right to the point. No need for classes or UI or anything; it just takes the title and downloads the damn file. Here's the source: book.js
