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This is an HN perennial favourite, with 39 submissions. Among the significant discussions:

8 years ago, 32 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283614>

8 years ago, 61 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614>

3 years ago, 49 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981275>

14 years ago, 46 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079473>

6 years ago, 33 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987188>

11 years ago, 11 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660763>

10 years ago, 23 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681061>

14 years ago, 23 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205500>

16 years ago, 15 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191212>

15 years ago, 10 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723361>

16 years ago, 12 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311454>

17 years ago, 5 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834>

Equally remarkable: there are Tinyurl links to Amazon books in the post from 17 years ago that still resolve to the books’ page on Amazon!

The remarkable part is that TinyURL still works.

Amazon's book look-up is by ISBN, which is fixed at time of assignment, and would be unlikely to change. You can look up the ISBN on any similarly indexed site.

Wikipedia's Special:Booksources page is one of those, and points at other resources including Google Books, Open Library, Amazon (recursion!), and numerous others:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=03933...>

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