Problems with ISBNs

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 05:43:56PM -0800, Robby Stephenson wrote:

> directly from amazon. Keep in mind that the national sites don't
> always have the same results as the US site.

I'm using the US site. I'm not at my local computer for the next week,
but I'll send you some specific examples when I'm back in town. But the
gist of it is that it will return the same result (although sometimes
for different books in a multibook list) when querying. I get more
reliable results when doing them one at a time, but I still find cases
where Tellico reports item not found when a manual search on Amazon with
the same ISBN number turns it up just fine.

Unlike the previous poster, I'm using US English for everything, so I
don't think it's strictly language-related. Since it also happens
occasionally with keyword and title lookups, I think it might be a
broader problem.

> I'll check that, and it's supposed to work as you suggest. Any ISBN
> values that are not found are listed in a dialog after the search is
> over, or at least, they're supposed to be.

They show up in a dialog, but it's non-editable, so I can't
copy-and-paste the ISBN's anywhere, nor can I go back to the original
multi-item list and find it easily.

Making the dialog selectable (e.g. XSelection), or automagically copying
the items to the clipboard, might be easiest. Alternatively, showing the
original list with the unfound items highlighted would make some sense,
too. Either way, the point is that I shouldn't have to scribble ISBNs on
a piece of scrap paper when Tellico fails. This isn't a big deal for a
small handful of books, but sometimes I'm scanning in 50 books at a
time. :/

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