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I am a new lifetime member and I thought I saw somewhere about how one can add bibliographic information for books that are not yet in the EYB database.  Now I don't seem to be able to find it.  I am interested in how we might go about enlarging the database so that I can get a higher percentage of my collection on my bookshelf. 

I currently have more than one hundred books on my virtual shelf but I have many more that don't appear on EYB.  While I realize it would be almost impossible to get all of them indexed, I would like to at least acknowledge their presence in my collection.  Who knows, it might point out older books that really should be indexed.

I think this is a worthy project and I hope everyone is telling their friends and mentioning this site on social networking sites, etc.

--James

Thanks James for all your support and for spreading the word about EYB.  As part of the expansion of the EYB Library, which is the project our developers are working on now, you will be able to add any book you want.  Hopefully you won't need to add many books yourself as the EYB Library will be much larger, adding many more international, rare and out-of-print books.  I can't give you a date when it will be live but it is our number one priority.

Very few of my books are on your list- but I await your development to enable user upload of titles.

In the meantime could I suggest that you also provide page numbers to the index for the books  - this would really be helpful in quickly checking  a receipe.  My own experience is that there are some dishes  that I cook  a lot  and others that  don't get a look in - I would like to expirement  better with my cookbooks so the site would really help me to do this but a quick in- point to the books would be helpful.

cheers!

Page numbers have been a problem because we index just one edition of each cookbook (unless it has major revisions like the Joy of Cooking) and then link the other editions to it.  So the page numbers will be different between the hardback, paperback, special anniversary edition, etc.  So if we entered the numbers for the edition we indexed then they would be wrong for the other editions.  We are thinking about a way to have different page numbers for each edition (perhaps member entered).