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1gshubert
Aug 7, 3:53 pm

Hello,
Sorry but I can’t find the topic anywhere.
I’m from Poland and have a lot of Polish books. I use LibraryThing for storing my collection, however it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to.
Most books aren’t recognised by IBSN (probably because they’re Polish) so I use Bookshelf to scan and got it. Then I exported all to CSV and put it into LibraryThing.
There’s a problem. Only a few books have been added correctly. All the rest, not recognisable via LibraryThing, isn’t there.
What to do then?

2anglemark
Aug 7, 4:14 pm

>1 gshubert: When you add books, which library source do you use? These are available:

Akademia Ignatianum W Krakowie
Akademia Muzyczna im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy
Källan har lagts till Biblioteka Narodowa / National Library of Poland
Biblioteka Publiczna im. ks. Jana Twardowskiego w dzielnicy Praga Pó?noc m. st. Warszawy
Biblioteka Sejmowa
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Paw?a II / The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Lódzka Akademicka Siec Biblioteczna, LASB
OMNIS e-Service
Uniwersytet Jagiello?ski / Jagiellonian University
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy

Uniwersytet Miko?aja Kopernika w Toruniu / Nicholas Copernicus University in Toru?
Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna w Kielcach

On the Add books page, click the "Add from 4,967 sources" link at the bottom.

3Petroglyph
Aug 8, 12:18 am

>1 gshubert:

Adding to that, the csv importer will use the isbns in the file to search your sources for metadata. If you want to import the data as-is, keep the isbn column in the csv file empty.

4MarthaJeanne
Aug 8, 2:02 am

You can always add the individual works manually. The link for that is below your list of sources on the left of the add books page.

While it is convenient to have a lot of the data entered from a source, I find that a manual entry doesn't take me much longer. I check each entry anyway to make sure the entry actually matches my book, that it is in the form I prefer, and that it is combined into the correcy work.