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If you import a list of titles (through a text file), is there a way to get Amazon Details and cover art automatically?
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What you can do is import your text list of titles into Delicious Library 1. For reasons I can't explain, our importer was a little more robust in the first version, and you could import just the title and have it do a search.
Download Version 1 here (it has a free trial, so you won't have to buy anything): http://www.delicious-monster.com/down...
Then import your text file of titles. Once they're in, you'll have to go through and identify which edition of each book it is that you want in your library. Once you identify the editions, the details will be loaded from Amazon, and the items will then have ASINs attached to them.
Once they have ASINs, you can migrate them to Version 2. When you first launch Delicious Library 2, it should migrate your version 1 data into version 2 automatically.
Since you need it to re-scan for that Version 1 library and then import all those items, here's what you do:
- Close Delicious Library 2.
- In your home folder, find and delete the "Library" > "Application Support" > "Delicious Library 2" folder.
- Relaunch version 2. It should import the data from version 1 on its own.
I know this solution is a little less than ideal, but it should work if you really want to get those items into Delicious Library 2 without re-scanning them.
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Importing a list of titles isn't enough information for us to be able to pull Amazon details and cover art automatically. Unfortunately you need ASINs or ISBNs in order for that to happen. Sorry.
Usually if you have a list of titles, however, they're from another source that may actually have the ASIN or ISBNs that you need. If you can export a list of those into a text file, and head that list "ASIN", then you should be able to import those numbers into DL2 and from that information DL2 will be able to fill in the rest of the info including details and cover art.
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Inappropriate?Importing a list of titles isn't enough information for us to be able to pull Amazon details and cover art automatically. Unfortunately you need ASINs or ISBNs in order for that to happen. Sorry.
Usually if you have a list of titles, however, they're from another source that may actually have the ASIN or ISBNs that you need. If you can export a list of those into a text file, and head that list "ASIN", then you should be able to import those numbers into DL2 and from that information DL2 will be able to fill in the rest of the info including details and cover art.
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Inappropriate?I would really like to see this happen, too. In fact, this is the only thing keeping me from buying Delicious Library 2, which I otherwise love. I have a large list of my books in a text file, with (unfortunately) no ASINs or other details, and I just don't have time to scan or manually add them all.
Why doesn't Delicious Library offer an option to take the first Amazon result for each title, perhaps with a one-time warning to the user that this won't always result in perfect matches? Bookpedia does this exactly--you can import a list of titles, have them all pulled from Amazon in a single step, then manually correct just the ones where the first match wasn't the right book.
I think most users who want this feature would be willing to accept a percentage of false positives in exchange for having the majority of their titles filled in without manual entry or scanning. I definitely would, and I'd buy Delicious Library in a heartbeat if it did this.
I hope you'll reconsider. I'll be watching your update announcements.
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Inappropriate?Take a look at how "Papers" manages this by showing a list of results from whetever search result and allowing the user to decide which one's metadata to import. http://mekentosj.com/papers/
As Library already contains a search pane, why no have books sport a "?" icon when they are ambiguous so the user can re-evaluate them. -
Inappropriate?What you can do is import your text list of titles into Delicious Library 1. For reasons I can't explain, our importer was a little more robust in the first version, and you could import just the title and have it do a search.
Download Version 1 here (it has a free trial, so you won't have to buy anything): http://www.delicious-monster.com/down...
Then import your text file of titles. Once they're in, you'll have to go through and identify which edition of each book it is that you want in your library. Once you identify the editions, the details will be loaded from Amazon, and the items will then have ASINs attached to them.
Once they have ASINs, you can migrate them to Version 2. When you first launch Delicious Library 2, it should migrate your version 1 data into version 2 automatically.
Since you need it to re-scan for that Version 1 library and then import all those items, here's what you do:
- Close Delicious Library 2.
- In your home folder, find and delete the "Library" > "Application Support" > "Delicious Library 2" folder.
- Relaunch version 2. It should import the data from version 1 on its own.
I know this solution is a little less than ideal, but it should work if you really want to get those items into Delicious Library 2 without re-scanning them.
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Inappropriate?Is this going to be added to DL 2? Or will DL 1 always be necessary for importing? -
Inappropriate?I've been dealing with a similar problem all day, even though I have the ISBN #s. On a lark, I changed the title "ISBN" to "ASIN" and imported again. Although the details don't show up at first, when I click on each field they magically appear -- with cover art and all. Makes little sense, but thrilled to be able to batch import.
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Inappropriate?You can also select a bunch and hit command-R to get them all to load in sequence.
Note: doing this for a large number at once usually causes DL2 to become very unresponsive. It's working, but very slowly. Keep that in mind if you decide to do several at once; just let it be.
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