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by a0-prw 333 days ago
You don't mention (or I didn't see it) the ability to add books by scanning the isbn. Manually adding books is too time consuming.
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There's actually. Currently there are three methods of adding a book:

- searching (which uses the Google Books API under the hood)

- manual addition (which nobody wants to do — I completely understand — but is the only option for old books that cannot be found online; I have a lot of these)

- scanning the ISBN (which also uses the Google Books API).