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Certain ISBN numbers are not recognized by Citoid
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:
A red message "We were unable to generate a citation for you":

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What should have happened instead?:
A citation should have been generated

Other information:

If I enter isbn 9781786722973, the citation is successfully generated. Therefore, it looks like only certain ISBN numbers are affected by the bug.

I'm also unable to generate a citation for ISBN 978-80-909009-0-5 (another Czech ISBN). Both are valid books, see National library records:

Event Timeline

I think it was known that when we switched our data source for ISBN lookup (T336297 and T336727) that we would lose coverage in certain areas and gain coverage in other areas. This would appear to be one of the places we lost coverage. We may just want to merge this into T352571. @Mvolz will have a more definitive answer I'm sure.