Murder by Death

Also:  I have a new appreciation for the complexity of import scripts.

The program works - yay!  I've set it up to process 15 records at a time, opening a new Add Book window for each but not submitting it.  That allows me to fix the weird errors (example: a colon (:) in a title makes everything to the right of the colon go in the author space. Bad colon!) and manually hit 'enter' for any new authors not in the BL system.

Automating the clean up of Penguin/RH's feed is still a work in progress.  There are a lot of steps.  A LOT!  I still have to figure out how to not re-import the records I've already added to BL.  And the bug with the book descriptions is going to ... bug me.

But anyway - 50 new audio and ebooks in the system that will be released on the 19th.  Woot!

For those that would like to add images for these records (I love you), you can use this link to get them directly from Penguin:

https://reststop.randomhouse.com/resources/images/ISBN-299x450.jpg/

REPLACE the "ISBN" in that link with the actual ISBN number of the cover you want.  This should return an image that BL won't give you grief about in terms of size.  You can leave the size bit off at the end, but you have to keep the '.jpg' or else you'll get an error page.  

Of course that link only works for books published by Penguin Random House.  :P

I have no idea if this is going to make anything better for anyone - for all I know I'm adding the most obscure books in publishing history - but hopefully, hopefully, it will ease some of the frustration.  Assuming RL will let me do this regularly enough to matter.  Small victories.