Adding multiple books at once

I did a search and this topic has four pages of suggestions in this group, all of them dormant. Should I conclude it never got any attention from the boss?

What I'd like: Say I have a Kindle with a bunch of books on it, including the entire Commissario Brunetti series. Rather than enter each book one-by-one, I'd like to go to LT's series page, click a box next to each of them to select them for addition, then click Add Books and have LT put them into my library. I'd like to enter tags once to encompass the entire series, too; in this case "mystery, Venice, Commissario Brunetti."

Is this doable and I've missed it, or has it been put aside as more trouble than it's worth? Inquiring minds want to know.

It's not doable at this time. There was talk of doing something with generic titles come LT2.0 but not sure what came of it.

The primary reason this is not doable now is to guarantee that you are picking your actual copy. Your ISBN/ASIN, your narrator for audio, etc. There is no generic book in the system right now. It's why you always have to go back to Add Books and pick each individual book.

Though if you want, you can create an ISBN upload file and add it all that way. Right now, that is the fastest way to add multiple books.

I agree that this would be a nice feature.

While we don't have a way to add from a series from this site, a workaround is to log into your Amazon account, go to your device's content list, ensure it's set to show your ebooks in the order you want, highlight the list, copy the highlighted list, then paste it into a spreadsheet. Match the columns to LT's import standards. Import to your catalog. Edit any incomplete or messed up entries.

This might only work if Amazon acknowledges the books on your Kindle. If you added books from other distributors by direct download instead getting them through your Amazon email, they don't show up as contents in your Amazon account, I think....

I also haven't tried this in months, so it might not work at all. Amazon frequently changes the coding in user accounts.

I also wish I could add an entire series to my account at once. I don't care about particular ISBN, just want an electronic record of my wishlist. For example I'd like to add the Core books from series Harry Potter, Redwall: Publication Order, Mars Diaries, and Boxcar Children. It seems I have to manually gather hundreds of ISBNs just to add these four series.

>4 micahlindstrom:
>I also wish I could add an entire series to my account at once. I don't care about particular ISBN, just want an electronic record of my wishlist.

Would it be viable to achieve that using the Import feature? I've never used it but from what I understand importing can be done by a CSV file instead of relying on ISBN lookup, which some copy/paste/pruning of the text on a series page, could be possible to get it down to Title, Author, etc. to put into a CSV (depending of course if you are on a device that allows copy/paste/manipulating of files in this way). Might be worth investigating if talking about hundreds of books across several series, sorry I can only offer vagueness on this, maybe others could clarify, or try the https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/625/Frequently-Asked-Questions group if not.

For physical copies with ISBN bar codes, the mobile app is really good. I once entered about 5,000 books for our club library. To begin with, I was typing in ISBN numbers and entered about 10 books a day (checking that it was the right book, adding covers etc). Then I moved on to the cat scanner (bar code reader) which made things faster. But then (this was a while back) LT brought out the mobile app and I didn't even have to pull the books off the shelves the whole way to scan them. So much faster! I could do a whole bookcase in a day (especially if I could dragoon my kids into 'volunteering').

Admittedly, the app is not infallible. Since I live in Asia and some of the books I buy are published here the ISBN is not always in the system. A lot of the books that I scanned in for the club were in Dutch and, at that time, not all of them were on LT and the same for old books or books that come in a set, such as box-cased.

For e-books (from Amazon), the best I can suggest is to open a tab with your ISBN (or Amazon equivalent) numbers listed, open another tab with Add Books and then copy, paste and search.

Best of luck.