CSV import doesn't recognize ISBNs from LT-exported CSV file

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CSV import doesn't recognize ISBNs from LT-exported CSV file

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1rsterling
Jan 17, 2013, 9:15 am

If you export your library as a CSV file, and then try to reimport it (or part of it) as a CSV file, the import process doesn't recognize or import the ISBNs. It tries to import the books as books without ISBNs.

I'm guessing this is because there are brackets around the ISBNs. There are brackets around the ISBNs in both the CSV and the tab-delimited exports.

2jbd1
Jan 17, 2013, 9:16 am

Yeah - it's the brackets (they're there so that spreadsheet programs won't change the numbers).

3rsterling
Jan 17, 2013, 9:40 am

Ah, so fixing one problem leads to another. ;)

4jbd1
Jan 17, 2013, 9:57 am

Right, exactly!