WorldCat/LoC

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

What was recently accomplished with the WorldCat/LoC import? Today I added an edition of a book that Goodreads has listed 33 editions. But WorldCat has over 130 editions. Are they to be found somewhere, and if so, where? Should I have been able to import this additional edition directly?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "But WorldCat has over 130 editions."

It is likely many are duplicates. WorldCat can have multiple "editions" with the same ISBN, and sometimes even the same information.

There is no way for a user to directly import data from WorldCat. It is imported by the developers in batches.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Thanks for the quick comeback, Rivka. Many of these were older editions with no ISBN. Anyway, if the import was supposed to get these editions, I don't think it worked.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Editions without an ISBN cannot be imported by any of the methods we currently use. They must be created manually.

The ISBN is the unique identifier that GR uses that all the other sources do as well. Non-ISBN books tend to have different identifiers on each and every site/source.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Thanks for that clarification. I was happy to remind myself how to add this older library book. It's helpful to make sure this older brain can still engage the right gears.