I’d hit Amazon?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/EX_LookupbyISBN.html

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> On May 15, 2018, at 6:49 AM, Pikas, Christina K. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi All,
> Current bibliometrics project is in a humanities/social sciences area (not typically my specialty). I'm looking for book descriptions for maybe ~1000 books. Even if I could automate filling in a few more of these, I would be happy. I could scrape a catalog page, but that might be frowned upon. I could also download the free MARC files from LoC, but that's way too much.  We (JHA) don't maintain a cataloging subscription to WorldCat (JHE - our parent org, I'm sure must). OpenLibrary appears to not have descriptions.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
> Christina
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