It's been 2 years and I assume this hasn't been addressed because here's my problem.
I used ctrl+I to add new by barcode. I scan Dinotopia, it isn't found. I scanned Dinotopia's barcode into notepad, pasted into the look up field, it wasn't found. Not in add by barcode but on the main interface page.
I manually enter dinotopia by name and there it is in the database. I update that I have 1 of each book. I right-click, choose modify entry and discover the bar codes in the database are identical to the ones I just entered that did not find these books.
What am I doing wrong? Does this happen often? I didn't buy the scanner to frustrate myself.