[Koha] AmazonContent-- Hit and Miss?

[Ata ur Rehman]

I want to add one thing more.  Please ensure to enter ISBNs without hyphen
between.  E.g. Use 0743283449 instead of using 0-7432-8344-9

Ata

LISolutions.org

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Amazon images are retrieved by ISBN, so you might want to check your
> ISBNs against the hits you get at Amazon.  With older items, the likelihood
> of having been issued and reissued under multiple ISBNs is rather high.
>
> I'll leave the question of where to catalog ISBNs for others to address.
>
> --joe
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Max Crowe <newdurhamlibrary at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm a Library Director at a small library in New Hampshire.  We just
>> started using Koha (3.00.00.107), and we're using the AmazonContent
>> function to have our catalog pick up book covers and reviews from Amazon.
>> It works, but I can't help but notice that the hit rate for the interface is
>> rather low-- there's a large number of items in our collection for which we
>> aren't getting any book covers or reviews.  This would be expected,
>> certainly, for some of the older and more esoteric things in our
>> collection.  But I'm finding that even as I catalog new items-- Love the One
>> You're With by Emily Griffin, for example-- they also aren't getting any
>> hits from Amazon.  (And, if you search Amazon, you can easily find the book
>> cover and reviews.)
>>
>> Are any other libraries using this function?  If so, what sort of hit/miss
>> ratio are you getting?  Is there some field I should be using when
>> cataloging to ensure this function works better?
>>
>> Max Crowe,
>> Library Director
>> New Durham Public Library
>>
>
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