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Hi, I love using this site. I spent a few minutes searching to see if anyone had brought this up in the past, but ran out of time for searching, so I'll just ask.

I have just started adding my collection to My EYB and find that I have a lot of old books, small press and local books that I would like to be able to list in my collection just so I have the titles and, if they exist, the ISBNs for my own reference.  I doubt that the local Methodist Women's group cook book would ever be indexed or that you would ever be able to get hands on a copy, but I would love to be able to just list it in My EYB Bookshelf so I don't loose track of it in my extensive collection.

Do you think that my being able to add a title essentially by hand, knowing that it may never be indexed, to my own bookshelf will ever be an option? 

If your books have ISBNs you can request that we add them to the EYB Library by listing the ISBNs in the Import Books feature (listed in the left navigation pane).  When you try to import them you will get a message that they are not in the EYB Library.  The ISBNs get added to a record we are keeping of books that members would like to add to their Bookshelf.  We will be setting up more affiliations with booksellers which will allow us to expand the EYB Library considerably.  Once the books you tried to import are added to the Library, they will automatically be added to your Bookshelf.

For books that do not have an ISBN number, we do intend to allow members to add their details themselves.  I cannot give you a date when that feature will be added but it is on our to-do list.