Odd behaviour of Cover Stats

Best guess for ISBN shows tells me I have five books of that kind, two of which however have no cover and, whats more, are pre-ISBN. Odd.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/BarkingMatt&deepsearch=coverstats::guess...

Uploaded a cover for one of those. Still showing with "best guess" though.

Not hugely upsetting, but definitely odd.

Numbers have changed. But "problem" remains as was. One coverless pre-ISBN book - my Greek Homer of 1950 - shows in "best guess for ISBN" list. Leaving it as is, for bug control.

FWIW, the right link is http://www.librarything.com/profile_stats_covers_link.php?type=guess&view=Ba...

The one you have is to a result set. You can change every book and it won't change, unless you use my link.

As I see it, showing the ISBN cover in the catalog, one has no cover and is non-ISBN, the Ilias you have.

Ah,. You said that.

Ah, fine, like I said : I wasn't hugely upset.

But attributing a "best guess for ISBN" on a no-ISBN book seems like some sort of bug to me.

No, it's a bug. I believe the bug is that the book had an ISBN, you removed it, and it didn't change the edition number. But I'm looking at it after I fix something else.

> 4: For what it's worth : that's not my link to it. Frankly: your link shows some things that are totally inappropriate to my books. Maybe that's part of the bug.

And, maybe that's part of the bug too, I get another page when I work on my catalogue : the one I refer to, not yours.

What does it show? I get

Die Kartause von Parma
Nonsense: Aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature
The ancient Egyptian coffin texts: v. 1-3
Ilias - Odyssee Greek
Kleur en architectuur

The Iliad there doesn't have an ISBN. The others do.

Right, like I said, not hugely upset about it. Just calling them out if/when I encounter them. No worries.

> 9: We crossed posts - never mind.

That's exactly why I wonder: my Homer in Greek doesn't even have have an ISBN - so how does LT come up with a best guess for it?...

We're psychic.

We're psychic.

No, that would be if the book had an ISBN but it wasn't listed but you somehow knew what it was anyway.

Thinking it has an ISBN when it really doesn't is more like...delusional.

People who claim to be psychic are often delusional in other matters as well!

I believe this is fixed.