How to search and add eBooks

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I am finding it awkward to add eBooks to CLZ Books Web. Amazon generally gives an ASIN rather than ISBN for eBooks but searching for this doesn’t yield any results. Searching by author/title works but generally doesn’t list any eBook results. When I buy/borrow an eBook from Amazon Kindle, I have to look for the equivalent physical format, and copy and paste an ISBN from there. So I end up picking a random paperback or hardback version and changing the format to eBook.

Is there a better way to add eBooks to my collection? Does the ASIN have any relevance to CLZ Books Web?

The other issue is that page numbers have little relevance to eBooks; chapters are more appropriate. Is there any plan to allow chapters in place of pages in the main listing for an eBook?

Thanks!

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This is usually the way we recommend. Our Core online database will usually have your book, you will get a nice cover, the author, a plot, genre/subjects, etc.

You then can click the book, edit it, and just remove the amount of pages if you like.

We don’t have the chapter data, nor do we have ASIN data in our online Core database, so that’s why you can’t search for that.

We’re working on a new feature for CLZ Books called “Custom Fields” where you can create your own fields (and perhaps you could add chapters as a field for you to fill in if you need that information in your database).

Note that the Read History tab, if you wish to keep track of how far in the book you are, only deals with the pages field and pages read.

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FYI - some ebooks in Kindle Unlimited now do have ISBNs. So I have been using those when adding them.

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Thanks. I’ll keep an eye out for that.

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Thanks. I guess what I am suggesting is to add ‘chapters’ as a field in the Core database, at least for e-books and be able to use that when adding a read event. I guess this probably not realistic though. Yes, I could add a Custom Field, but could I then see that in my read history and use it when adding a read event?

It’s not difficult to improvise; 416 pages divided by 38 chapters is near enough 11 pages per chapter on average, so that’ll do for the time being.

Thanks for your suggestions.

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A Custom Field will not do anything to your read history.

That said: you can still set a book to “Read” or “not read” with Read History.

Most eBook-readers will likely remember which “page” you’re on, so there might not really be a need to keep track of how far you are in Read History/ and then the custom field you create for chapters could work fine.