Ignoring books with no cover image

  • Resolved cbeebie

    (@cbeebie)


    1 year, 3 months ago

    I have the “Library Bookshelves” plugin working and have populated a test bookshelf by pasting in a list of recently-acquired ISBNs obtained from our Koha system. I am using openlibrary.org as by cover image server. Over half of the ISBNs don’t deliver a cover image which results in a lot of “white spaces” in the slider. Is there a way to have it simply skip books for which no cover image is available?

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  • Plugin Author photonicgnostic

    (@photonicgnostic)

    If you set a custom placeholder image in the plugin settings those blank spaces will be replaced with said image. Unfortunately, OpenLibrary.org is missing cover art for many newer titles.

    You could try using the Amazon image server, since that is what your Koha catalogue uses, and the cover art in the Bookshelves should match what shows in the OPAC. The only issue with Amazon is that is does not work reliably with ISBN-13, but prefers ISBN-10. Baker & Taylor or Syndetics should also work well.

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