ISBN error when was Copied&Pasted from ebook

[Claire]

Hi, so this newly-minted librarian is trying to start the learning process by sticking with only my own books for now. I was adding books to my inventory when I noticed this book had a Kindle edition but not the e-Book edition (which I own: I own an e-Pub). I started by adding a new edition but ran into some errors.

Error detected with ISBN
ISBN used: 1230000412230
Source: copied and pasted from e-book

Help! What did I do wrong?

Thank you

[Zoey]

looks like the one you added is there The Billionaire Bride

[Claire]

I know it added, but it was error-ing as it was saving (it told me both that it was created and to double-check the ISBN). It said it was created but there was something wrong with the ISBN format or something.

Given that it was 13 numerical digits, and it was copied and pasted, I have no clue what is wrong.

[Abcdarian]

Sometimes an ebook edition ISBN is just not recognized as correct, in my experience. If you're sure it's correct, I'd say don't worry about it. Though I could be wrong. :-)

[Krazykiwi]

It isnt an isbn, they start with 978 or very rarely 979. It might be a valid EAN or just some internal code, but it is definitely not an isbn.

You would be amazed how many books have utter rubbish labelled as isbns though.

(ETA: I should qualify that, I'm referring only to ISBN 13's. ISBN 10's can start with anything, but you can tell if they're real because they'll be convertible to a valid ISBN 13 that does start with 978/979.

When that happens, it's usually because the publisher dropped the final digit - its a checksum that can be calculated by doing some maths on the first 9 digit. That's why I like this ISBN checker/calculator cos it makes it easy to find the checksum when that happens:
http://www.hahnlibrary.net/libraries/...
)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Are not ISBNs with 123 Nook books, or special B&N books the way Amazon has their ASIN designations to avoid the ISBN charges?

EDIT - nope, I'm wrong, they are KOBO designations.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Claire]

Oh, okay. I can't edit book details from this device but the next time I am on my laptop, I'll relocate it to the LCCN field.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I've seen the 123 numbers in the ISBN field many times and have left them. They definitely aren't an LCCN.

[Krazykiwi]

Right, I didn't mean to say they aren't allowed (I don't know if they are or not, but like Elizabeth, I don't remove them when I see them). I know the B&N Nook ones are - but they also don't validate as ISBN's and you will get an error for them which you can safely ignore. (That last bit is what I meant to write earlier, but didn't, my bad.)

It's still true that you find books all the time that have these listed in their front matter as ISBN's when they aren't, so it's no surprise there's some confusion around them.

[Paula]

Kobo 123 numbers are allowed in the same way we allow BNID

The check ISBN error is badly coded, to look for official ISBNs only when GR officially allows other numbers to be in the ISBN13 field