[itimpi]

I assume that is the purpose of the "Add Empty Book" sub-menu option available via the down arrow on the Add Books button?. You can then clear the author andtitle fields, put in the ISBN number and then try and fetch the metadata from the server?

I can see that some sort of future improvement could be an "Add Book via ISBN" option where it immediately asks for the ISBN and looks up the metadata and cover before adding the book could be a big improvement from a work-flow perspective. If such a dialog also allowed you specify tags as well as the ISBN it would give a good point to tag the book as being a paper copy.