Problems with ISBNs

humufr at yahoo.fr humufr at yahoo.fr
Sun Dec 17 13:21:51 MST 2006


Same problem here. ISBN is not working with amazon and very often I have no 
result or not good result in a search on amazon by title, author...

my 2 cents too :)

N.

Le Vendredi 15 Décembre 2006 16:16, Todd A. Jacobs a écrit :
> I'm getting some very weird results with tellico 1.2.4 and 1.2.7 when
> trying to go searches by ISBN.
>
> First of all, half the time the search comes back "itemid not found"
> even though I can look it up manually by ISBN on Amazon. Obviously, this
> is not right.
>
> Secondly, I get pretty much no results at all when using ISBN's and
> selecting Library of Congress. Is this normal?
>
> And finally, if I select multiple ISBNs, and some of them have problems,
> Tellico won't process the rest of the list. It should process what it
> can, and then do something with the remaining values. In particular,
> going back through a large list of ISBNs and figuring out which one(s)
> didn't go through, and then having to reenter them one at a time until I
> find the problem value, is pretty gimpy. It should really do something
> like processing all the ISBNs it can, and then show another edit dialog
> for the ones it can't handle.
>
> Anyway, just my $0.02.



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