WAIR is a very small plugin which uses Amazon's webservices to fetch information about a single book. I know MTAmazon, but it's just too complex for what I wanted to do: simply showing "I'm reading 'XYZ' by 'Some One'. Oh, and the image below is it's cover"
It's usage is fairly simple: just fetch it here, and copy it "as is" into your blog's plugins directory. It needs the XML::Simple module for perl, but that's all.
Once installed, just try inserting the code in the first box on your left into one of your templates (like the Main Index) and check the results!
The example uses all 4 snippets of information this plugin provides:
The asin parameter is mandatory (unless you're using MT-List, read below for more information). If you don't know the ASIN for your book, try using it's ISBN (should be in the backcover and on the first pages of the book). Insert all 10 characters. If that doesn't work, go to amazon.com and search for the book. Once you find it, the address in your browser's bar shoud be something like http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596003889/qid=1052455260/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/.... The bold part is the ASIN.
Version 0.2, 23 June 2003 - WAIR now supports the very nice MT-List plugin to display the data on multiple books at once (or at random). The second box on your left illustrates the usage. (It requires, of course, that you install MT-List first...)
Version 0.3, 12 June 2004 - You can now specify the image size for your thumbnails, by suggestion of Noel Llopis. There are 3 sizes available: s (for Small), m (for Medium), and l (for Large). If you don't specify anything (or enter a wrong value), it defaults to Medium. Look at the examples on your left to see how imagesize is used. I also added the German and French sites to choose from, and a place to enter your Partner ID, if you have one. Just edit the plugin, you'll find the lines to change near the top