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badreads replacement for goodreads (book tracking) 📚
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Books in Open Library without ISBN #21

Open miguelmaiquez opened 2 years ago

miguelmaiquez commented 2 years ago

Hi. It looks like the app can only find books editions in Open Library when they have an ISBN number, but many old books don't have an ISBN number. I tryed to add them manually, but then I can't find a way to add a cover. Here is an example: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5125201M/La_hoja_roja

It would be really great to be able to upload the cover image from local files in those cases. Or maybe to add the possibility to search not only by ISBN, but also by the OL code (in the example, OL5125201M).

Thank you for all your work and congratulations for the app.

fenimore commented 2 years ago

Good idea! I think you can search by ol code, that one turns up editions (but maybe not the right edition)

I'd also really like to add a cover from the app, but at the moment the open library API doesn't allow this.

If you want to change the cover, you first have to sign up at openlibrary.org, and then when visiting an edition that option should appear