Can enter a book by duplicating a similar one and editing?

I have many books that are sets or closely related to one another. When I've gone to all the trouble to get the details in for one, I'd like to just copy it, change the fields that matter, and save. Is there such a capability? I haven't been able to find it.

LT is not a source for entering. You could open the book you have already entered in one window, and the manual entry page in another, and cut and paste each field.

Too bad. It would be a great feature. I seem to be able to enter based on copying anyone else's entry, why not my own?

You can't copy anyone else's entry either.

Then what am I doing when I search, find, and add - including all the book details they have input, including those that are not accurate?

If you go to a book that someone else owns and use the "add to your library" button, it runs a search in your default book source - the same way it would from the Add Books page. If this is introducing errors that you saw in the other person's library, they were probably there in the source *that* person got it from.

This is counterintuitive and nobody likes it, but the site's owners think it will introduce less bad data than letting people reproduce LT entries themselves.

(If you have found another way that actually works to add other users' entries to your catalog, please share! I would love to have one.)

If you want to do what you mentioned in >1 aaronmerrick: I'm afraid the best way right now is to find the most accurate entry you can in Add Books, add that one a bunch of times, and then edit those. Or put the basic data in a spreadsheet and use the Import function, but that's fiddly too.

>6 melannen: Thank you, that's very helpful information.

>7 aaronmerrick: If you do that, you will need to do separations and combining to get your books in the right works.