Unrelated to your question, but: You're using the Business::ISBN module for validating your ISBNs, I hope. (I've done a bunch of work on it, and I use it all the time for my day job at a book distributor)

Any improvements and/or suggestions are always welcome.

xoxo,
Andy
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