Missing from the catalogue?
Add any book yourself, in about a minute
Small presses, foreign printings and brand-new releases slip through. Type the ISBN and the book is in — no request form, no queue, nobody at our end to wait for.
Once it is in, it is in for everyone.
Type the ISBN
The 13 digits off the back cover or the copyright page. Special editions and small-press printings often carry none — say so and you fill in the cover details instead.
No ISBN on the book? Say so and fill in the cover details instead.
Check it is the right book
We look it up and show you the cover, edition and publisher before anything is added, so a mistyped digit never becomes a wrong search.
Found in the book databases. Confirm to add it to the catalogue.
Add to catalogueStart searching it
Confirm and the book joins the catalogue there and then — ready to track, with its first search running immediately.
In for everyone: the next collector looking for it finds it already there.
No ISBN on it? Add it off the cover
Older printings, small presses and hand-bound editions often carry no barcode. Give us the title, author, format and edition instead — we search on those, on the same marketplaces and the same schedule.
Searched by title, author and edition instead of a barcode — same marketplaces, same schedule.
Once it is in
It is in for everyone
A book you add joins the catalogue for good, so the next collector looking for it finds it already there — and every search anyone starts on it runs like any other.
Add a bookincluding the free plan, and there is no cap on how many you add.
The rest of the guide
Questions
We look the ISBN up against the book databases we license, and show you what comes back before anything is added.
Add it by hand: title, author, edition and format. It is searched by those instead of a barcode.
No — a book you add joins the catalogue for everyone, so the next collector looking for it finds it already there.
Yes. A book with an ISBN carries the identifier the marketplaces match on; one without is searched by its title, author and edition.
Report it from the book page and we correct the catalogue entry for everyone.
Add the one nobody stocks
If it is not in the catalogue yet, it takes a minute to put it there — then it is searched like everything else.