This is AI-generated without even the faintest effort put into polishing the result.

The site's tagline is

> For collectors & dealers who take books seriously

But they can't even take writing one article seriously; I'm not interested in opinions on books from people who take zero care with their own output.

> Somewhere around 11 PM on a Tuesday — it's always a Tuesday — you will attempt to catalog a book printed in Lyon in 1642 and the software will ask for an ISBN. Not politely. Insistently. A red border. A validation error. A small, pixel-perfect indignity.

What kind of crappy software are you using? It would exclude pretty much every serious archive (and quite a lot of home libraries too).

> The problem is the assumption, baked so deeply into most software that it's become invisible, that the ISBN is the identifier […]

Which software makes this assumption? I can register any book I like in Zotero.

> Try selling on a marketplace that requires an ISBN for listing.

Which marketplaces? ABEBooks lists rare antique first editions without any ISBN (which no antique item can have if we assume antique means a century old at least) without issue.

Name and shame them. This article now feels like it describes a real problem, but offers no concrete examples, which makes it feel like a rant aimed at a non-existent problem.

There should be a "falsehoods programmers believe about books"

Reads as if AI wrote it.