Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I have a book that isn't listed on GoodReads, though another edition with a different ISBN is. I can't find anything in the librarian manual about adding a different edition.

Have you done a search on the ISBN of the book you have? It will automatically import if listed in amazon, otherwise

If you go the edition with the different ISBN, click on the Other Editions link on the right side and then there is link for Add new edition. Guidelines for adding are on that page

Thanks, the ISBN search did it. Though it was still not turning up in a title search until I combined the editions.

Now to figure out how to get a cover image on... :-) I normally grab them from paperback swap, but they don't have it.

Found it on fictiondb, done!

This thread fits one of my two questions perfectly, and the other pretty well. I have 5-6 six books from the Fu Manchu series and in most of them, my particular edition is not listed. The thing is, the newest of them is from 1968, pre-ISBN. All that's there is the Pyramid catalog number, something like R1302. So, I guess I'd follow the steps Paula included in Msg-2, and enter the catalog number... where? Just in the description? And add an explanation in a librarian note so it doesn't get zapped with no ISBN.

Question #2... I have a book, also with no ISBN... hmmm... but one that I calculated. Nope. Didn't work. I DID get a match at http://www.eurobuch.com/ but that doesn't help much.

Title: The Time Trap Gambit (Agent of T.E.R.R.A, #4)
Author: Larry Maddock
ISBN: (calculated) 0441010431
Amazon listing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007EHE26

My questions here are: Is this book new to goodreads? If so, how would I go about adding it?

Any help here? Shouldn't be too hard for somebody with some experience. :-|

What do you mean by "calculated" ISBN?

There's an ID number on the spine: 441-01043. I used info on ISBNs in wikipedia, added 0 for the first digit (group code of 0 or 1 for English), and then calculated the check digit as 1. Like I said, I didn't find a match at any place that GR recognizes, but I did find one in eurobuch.

An ID number on the spine almost certainly has no relationship at all to the ISBN. Many 1969 books don't have one.

Go ahead and create the book manually. Catalog numbers are not used, either in the description or elsewhere. If you add the cover image (just download from Amazon and upload to GR), it is unlikely to be deleted by a librarian, but a Note couldn't hurt.

Well, that didn't seem too hard... if it's correct. If I could get an opinion on whether it's OK, or what I should have done differently, I'd really appreciate it. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81...

I have another book in hand, which actually fits the subject of this thread. The book is "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" by H.P. Lovecraft. The SBN is 345-24048-0-150, Fourth U.S. printing: October, 1974. It looks very much like http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... except for the dates and the description. The price of my book was $1.50. Would that mean that the ISBN would be 0345240480, or am I making an unwarranted assumption?

Thanks as always, rivka.

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Since Amazon and B&N don't have it listed, probably simplest to add it manually.

Andy, I think you might be looking at the barcode, not the ISBN. I've certainly seen UPC with the price extension, where the price is actually added into the UPC code at the end, but I've never seen it on an ISBN. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened though, and that's got to be what you're looking at. Get rid of the 150 at the end.

I'm not sure the ISBN had been that standardized in 1974. Extensions back then seem plausible.

Carin, Thanks for trying to help, but a lot of my books are pretty old. I don't know when barcodes or UPCs became common, but these books don't have any. The line about the SBN and printing was typed from the copyright page.

(According to wikipedia (which, as we all know, is never wrong) barcodes were patented in 1952 and became popular in the late '70s.)