search

textbrowser / biblioteq

Archive and catalog the world for today's and tomorrow's generations! Awesome and everyware.
https://textbrowser.github.io/biblioteq/
Other
217 stars 46 forks source link

Creation of a book with isbn13 starting with 979 : problem during validation #269

Closed meteos77 closed 1 year ago

meteos77 commented 1 year ago

When creating a book with isbn-13 in 979 the validation cannot be done because BQ asks for ISBN13 and ISBN10. message : "Please complete both the ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 fields.

On the other hand no problem when importing csv

Can you allow saving if there is only the ISBN-13? Thank you in advance for the evolution.

textbrowser commented 1 year ago

Someone once requested a conversion from 979. This is not allowed. Anyway, the behavior is now different.

textbrowser commented 1 year ago

The change is with respect to the next release. Previous releases allowed 979 conversions. Remember, these conversions are not logical.

meteos77 commented 1 year ago

It's always great to get the fix within 24 hours. We can't thank you enough for this performance!

summary: isbn10 -> isbn13 : OK isbn13 (978) -> isbn10 : OK isbn13 (979) -> no isbn10 : OK with information message

the point of converting isbn13(978) to isbn10 is to allow image search on amazon otherwise we have the message "In order to download a cover image, alternate Identifier or ISBN-10 must be provided."

I have almost had every book in my library and very few books have an isbn-10 in barcode format.

Either the isbn10 is just listed inside in numeric format, or it wasn't even listed.

The real change was with the 978 that are now printed as a barcode on the back cover and retailers had to switch to the world of scanners which made barcodes widespread.