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How to add the book using the title or author search?

Not Found Items

If our auto cataloguing feature (search by ISBN) does not return results it does not mean that the book is not listed in the source catalogue:

  • The book search catalogs often do not list the item with the ISBN number you entered into the search box. Frequently they have another edition of the item with a different ISBN.
  • Sometimes the book is very old and does not have ISBN number.
  • Sometimes invalid ISBNs are entered into the search box (ISBN has to be 10 digit or 13 digit number, only digits, no other characters).

If there is another book search engine that gives good results, please let us know. Then, we can review it and include it in our software. For example, after a user's suggestion, our auto-cataloging feature can add new items from the British Library. The search is by BL system number.


How to find a book's ISBN or ASIN number at Amazon Book Catalog ?

  1. open and search by book title and author Amazon Book Catalog
  2. display detail page
  3. look for ISBN or ASIN number
  4. use this number in our program's auto cataloging feature.

How to find a book's ISBN or LCCN number at Library Of Congress Online Catalog?

  1. open and search by book title and author Library Of Congress Online Catalog
  2. display detail page
  3. look for ISBN or LCCN number
  4. use this number in our program's auto cataloging feature.

How to find a book's British Library system number?

  1. How to add the book data from the British Library?

How to find a book's ISBN or OCLC number at WorldCar.org?

  1. November, 2022: we do not support WorldCat search; In the summer of 2022, the WorldCat book search did a significant update of the book search and the display of the search results. WorldCat does not support the direct ISBN link we used in our search procedure. They also block or make it difficult to retrieve data. Please get in touch with us if you still would like to use WorldCat.
  2. open and search by book title and author WorldCat.org Catalog
  3. display detail page
  4. look for ISBN or OCLC number
  5. use this number in our program's auto cataloging feature.

How to find a book data on the web?

  1. open and search by book title and author any web search service (example: Google).
  2. display detail page
  3. copy and paste data into our program

Validate 10-digit ISBN number
Enter ISBN-10 (10-digit number)
Your 10-digit ISBN number is:
 



Validate 13-digit ISBN number
Enter ISBN-13 (13-digit number)
Your 13-digit ISBN number is:
 

Related Question:

I see where you can add a book using the ISBN, but what if we don't know the ISBN (e.g book is not in front of us). Is there a way to add the book using the title or author? And getting a list of books and select the ones that we want to add into the library from that list?

I have used a small app on my iPhone called BookBuddy that is excellent in this way for adding books. Can you add the same type of feature into your application?

Answer: Our auto cataloguing feature is finding the exact book that you would like to catalogue (ISBN). We do not provide the search by title and author because the result would list too many items. Browsing through this list and deciding which item represents the correct solution would be a tedious task.




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