listing my cookery books
rating:There's a plaintive little cry below the box in which I'm typing. It says: " you haven't added any cookbooks to your library!"
Fair enough. I've been collecting cookery books all my long life, and now have a large collection, many of them ancient, dog-eared, food-spattered and very disreputable-looking; some of them really useful.
I've decided to try to list at least some of them for nibblous, but my spirit quails when I contemplate the immensity of the task.
First, I must find a clipboard and the step-ladder...
See you later!
[later] Done one shelf so far. I've got some really obscure stuff that I'd long forgotten about.
[later still] Bugger that for a game of soldiers. My books are too weird to be recognised, it seems. I type in the ISBN number and am told that Amazon doesn't care for it so I can naff off.
Ah, well - perhaps nibblous doesn't need my cookery books after all. That's a relief. Think I'll go and have a nice cup of tea.
3 comments to this
ramtops said on 13 Mar 2006 at 17:00:45:
sasha said on 13 Mar 2006 at 17:31:20:
I shall hold myself ready.
sasha said on 14 Mar 2006 at 17:10:51:
If there is a special prize for people who get things badly wrong, I think I am a powerful contender.
I was entering the ISBN number of each cookery book as it appears on the flyleaf: grouped in little clumps of numbers with spaces in between. It seems that you're not supposed to put in spaces. I happened to try enetering one of the ISBN numbers minus spaces, and LO AND BEHOLD: it worked perfectly.
Now, where's my special prize?
well, I did say that - at the moment - you can only add ones that Amazon knows about. When I have time, I will write the code to allow any book to be added.