German National Library: add books not working

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German National Library: add books not working

1karakus
Feb. 27, 2021, 5:46 am

For at least a few months now, the add books function (from German National Library) is not working as expected: Within a few seconds the site replies with the number of books found that match the query, but the contents of the detailed list are not as with the other libraries, and there is nothing to select.
This can be tested with any German title or snippet, try e.g., Berlin.

2ccatalfo
Mrz. 1, 2021, 9:16 am

>1 karakus: Thanks for the report on this.

We'll take a look and see what's going on.

3knerd.knitter
Mrz. 11, 2021, 2:23 pm

This has been fixed. Thank you for reporting.

4karakus
Mrz. 14, 2021, 9:41 am

>3 knerd.knitter: Sorry to say that this is still not working as it should.
What has been fixed is that one can now search and select a book from German National Library, but after selection there is a blank entry in the list of recently added books. Also in the "Your books" tab there is only a blank new entry without title or author, but with unrelated covers and reviews. This result is the same no matter which book you try to add.

5MarthaJeanne
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 14, 2021, 10:00 am

>4 karakus: If that is the case this needs reopening.

Confirming.

https://www.librarything.com/work/book/197658117
should be the same as https://www.librarything.com/work/22088130/book/197164722

BTW I did get a few to 'work' but they would have needed so much clean up that a manual entry would have been better. I tested on my most recent German language entries using the first part of the title.

6karakus
Mrz. 15, 2021, 10:15 am

>5 MarthaJeanne: It appears to work now. I added three books from the 60ies/70ies and they added without a hitch (the same books could not successfully be added yesterday).

7knerd.knitter
Mrz. 15, 2021, 4:42 pm

>4 karakus: Can you provide the specific search terms you're using and the books you're adding?

8karakus
Mrz. 16, 2021, 9:13 am

>7 knerd.knitter: It is working now.

9knerd.knitter
Mrz. 16, 2021, 9:56 am

Closing as fixed.

10IsabelHolland
Mrz. 16, 2021, 10:21 am

Dieser Benutzer wurde wegen Spammens entfernt.

11karakus
Mrz. 20, 2021, 5:01 am

>9 knerd.knitter: Unfortunately, it still turns out to not reliably work all the time:
For example, search for 3894872551 (ISBN Number).
The reply should be https://www.librarything.com/work/26256413/summary/197844869
Die Kunst hat nie ein Mensch allein besessen : eine Ausstellung der Akademie der Künste und Hochschule der Künste, 9. Juni bis 15. September 1996

This is also found in the German National Library, but if it is added to LibraryThing, the entry is empty.

12newcrossbooks
Mrz. 20, 2021, 8:21 am

>11 karakus: I've reopened the bug status for you.

Is that the same problem as outlined in this bug report where "black hole" books are sometimes generated when using the German National Library as a source?

https://www.librarything.com/topic/321325

The book is found, but when you try to add it to your collection the entry is blank? If so, did you try entering it again and was it then entered correctly?

I did notice, and report, a different problem recently where all the found books in the German National Library were completely blank, no titles or anything, so there was no point in trying to enter any of them.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/330446

This report was closed as being a known issue and merged with this error report. It appears that this problem has been fixed, but the old "black hole" books being produced by the German National Library problem still remains.

13karakus
Mrz. 20, 2021, 9:14 am

>12 newcrossbooks: No, it does not work even if one tries to enter the same book repeatedly, it ony adds an empty entry each time (but if you have not deleted the unsuccessful entry before, you are warned that this book does already exist in your collection).
However, when I had the same problem last time with three different books, they all added without any incident a day later.

14knerd.knitter
Mrz. 2, 2023, 2:03 pm

I'm closing this as the specific item in >11 karakus: works now, so if there are others with this problem this or a new bug report should be opened.