Adding online book or ebooks that has no search result?

I just tried to add Distributed Systems For Fun and Profit by Mikito Takada.

It has an entry on librarything https://www.librarything.com/work/15312055 . But when I tried to add it, I couldn't do it because there is no search result from amazon etc. Because it's a free online book/ebook.

I tried "Add manually feature" but it doesn't seem to work. I filled in the Title but it doesn't seem to share the same entry as the one in https://www.librarything.com/work/15312055 .
That one has 10 members, but the one I added manually has no other members, and it's on a different page.

Any idea?

Add it manually. Once it is added, if it does not auto-combine, it can be combined manually. :)

Got it, thanks. How to combine manually?
My attempt of adding it manually produced this https://www.librarything.com/work/27679908 .
I couldn't find a way to delete this page or merge it with the other page https://www.librarything.com/work/15312055 that has 10 members.

>3 jataeqa: Look at the right lower side of the work page. There is a link “Add work to Workbench”. You can add both books to the workbench and that allows you to combine them. :)

Now - that may not work in some cases because you deleted your copy of the book thus leaving the first page a 0-copy work. If that happens, there is a different method - just post in the current Combiners thread https://www.librarything.com/topic/333401 and someone will assist you. But from what I am seeing, it will work here - so would like to try or do you want me to do it.

I just tried it. But it wasn't clean merging. It seems they are treated as separate editons.
https://www.librarything.com/work/15312055/editions lists 4 entries of the same online book.

Thanks for the help. It seem adding author when adding it manually is necessary so that it doesn't create a new page like I did.

My bad.

>5 jataeqa: That’s normal - any difference in author/title/Isbn will end up as a different “edition” on that page once it is combined. And sometimes even seemingly the same ones will stay separated. Which is nothing to worry about - that’s just how the system works. They are still treated as the same “work”. These “editions” don’t really show different editions - just what the system think of being the same or not - and there is no level of the site that is based on them - we have only two levels - the individual books and the overall work. The editions page is somewhat of a misnamed entity - these are not book editions but internal ones. :)

Not adding the author initially is why it did not auto combine. If you add an author, there is a bigger chance for the auto combination to kick in - but even then you may need to combine manually if the system does not recognize it.