Books not in ISBNdb now come from Google Books

When you add a book by ISBN or title, we look it up in ISBNdb and fill in the title, authors, cover and description for you. That works for most books. But ISBNdb doesn't have everything, and until now a miss meant typing the whole book in by hand.

Now, if ISBNdb has no match, we try Google Books next. You don't have to do anything different. Enter the ISBN or title as usual and select Find.

You can tell where the details came from. When they come from Google Books, a "Powered by Google" logo and a View on Google Books link show up under the description. On Add Many Books, they show up under the search box.

The same goes for importing a CSV file. Any ISBN that ISBNdb can't find is looked up in Google Books, so fewer rows come back empty.

As always, check the details against the book in your hand before you save. Neither source gets every book right.