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Fix Import By ISBN, please
Dec 26, 2023
Seeing all the happy happyy SNS posts about the the new barcode scanner (which ALSO doesn't work for me, 100% failure rate so far) has reminded me of this LONG-standnig bug. As the effects of my CP become more noticeable, typing is more problematic, it would be great if one day I actually COULD just C&P an ISBN and have the book added.
I get that the new features are more important to TSG's growth and long term future, and I'm genuinely delighed for people who are loving buddy reads, book clubs and barcode scanners but after 3 yeard, it would be nice to at least get some sort of timeframe for a fix.
Then maybe one day "we were unable to import your book" would not be 80% of the 'personalised' notifications in my inbox
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5 weeks from my 4th anniversary of joining TSG and this persistent pain point persists. Happy happy, joy joy
I'm sorry that the import has been failing regularly for you, Robin. We do want to improve its success rate and improving the system combined with the app's user base growing will hopefully mean that you rarely have to import a book.
Nadia Since the definition of stupidity is donig the same thing the same way and expecting a different result, importing a book has already become an absolute last resort. It is such a pain point I just look through editions and if I find ANY digital edition already in the system, I select it and mark it as owned, even when it's not. Despite different covers and page counts, marking a Kindle edition as owned is easier than attempting to add a Kobo edition with the 80%+ failure rate of "Import by ISBN". This admission of defeat has reduced the number of books I need to add, but not by much.