In the last couple of days, the Download Metadata function on my ihas become extremely slow. The logs now end with "The identify phase took 199.22 seconds" but I don't really know what that means and can't find anything in the settings or configuration about an "identify phase." I've tried disabling various metadata sources without seeing any change. Sometimes it works again if the book has an ISBN stored, but if I delete the ISBN the same book will go back to the 199 seconds.
When the identify phase breaks like that, cover downloads also take ages, and they don't seem to have a timeout - it will just spin endlessly, and the log only says that the search has begun.
What's going on? What can I do about this?
Below are logs from two of the broken searches:
Spoiler:
Quote:
Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Spaceman (For Young Readers)', 'authors': ['Mike Massimino'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 9)
The log from individual plugins is below
Not waiting any longer for more results. Still running sources:
Google
Amazon.com
****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 30.227684020996094
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/spa...ke%20massimino
Failed to make identify query
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1238, in do_open
File "http\client.py", line 1378, in getresponse
File "http\client.py", line 318, in begin
File "http\client.py", line 279, in _read_status
File "socket.py", line 706, in readinto
File "ssl.py", line 1311, in recv_into
File "ssl.py", line 1167, in read
TimeoutError: The read operation timed out
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.__init__", line 164, in identify
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error The read operation timed out>
****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading was aborted
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Title : Spaceman (Adapted for Young Readers): The True Story of a Young Boy's Journey to Becoming an Astronaut
Author(s) : Mike Massimino
Publisher : Random House Children's Books
Tags : Juvenile Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology, Technology, Aeronautics; Astronautics & Space Science, History, Exploration & Discovery
Languages : eng
Published : 2021-04-20T12:49:57.423792+00:00
Identifiers : google:60UlEAAAQBAJ, isbn:9780593120897
Comments : <p>An astronaut who completed spacewalks on two Hubble missions tells his inspiring story in this middle grade adaptation of his bestselling adult memoir, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. Fans of The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 will be thrilled by this astronaut's real life adventure.</p>
<p>From the time he was seven-years-old and saw Apollo 11 land on the moon, Mike Massimino dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Long Island is a long way from space. Kids like him, growing up in working-class families, seldom left the neighborhood. But with the encouragement of teachers and mentors, Mike ventured down on a path that took him to Columbia University and to MIT. It wasn't easy. There were academic setbacks and disappointments aplenty--and NASA turned him down three times. Still, Mike never gave up. He rose to each challenge and forged ahead, inching closer to realizing his boyhood dream. His love of science and space, along with his indomitable spirit and sense of teamwork eventually got him assigned to two missions to fix the Hubble Space Telescope--as a spacewalker. Spaceman takes readers on Mike's unlikely ride from Earth to space, showing the breathtaking wonder of science and technology along the way.</p>
<p>"Mike Massimino is a spaceman through and through. In this edition for young people, he tells us how hard work can take you out of this world. He believes in teamwork, and he never gives up. Prepare to be inspired.</p>
****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 9) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading was aborted
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/Spaceman-Adap...1&unfiltered=1
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The identify phase took 199.23 seconds
The longest time (-1.000000) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
Quote:
Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Moonshot', 'authors': ['Mike Massimino'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Google (1, 1, 1)
The log from individual plugins is below
Not waiting any longer for more results. Still running sources:
Google
****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading was aborted
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Title : Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible
Author(s) : Mike Massimino
Publisher : Hachette Books
Tags : Self-Help, Personal Growth, Success, Business & Economics, Leadership, Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology
Languages : eng
Published : 2023-12-05T12:58:19.821581+00:00
Identifiers : google:tV-3EAAAQBAJ, isbn:9780306832666
Comments : <p>Learn the NASA Astronaut mindset to solve problems, provide leadership in the face of adversity, and never give up when pursuing your wildest ambitions. * Mike Massimino achieved his dream of exploring space.* Now he distills stories and insights from NASA into an actionable guide to accomplish your biggest goals.* Mike reveals how to make possible the seemingly impossible—on Earth.* Written with characteristic wit and a big heart, Mike identifies ten hard-earned lessons of spaceflight and his other life experiences, including: • One in a Million Is Not Zero: The odds are against you. Do it anyway. • The Thirty-Second Rule: You’re going to make mistakes. Learn how to deal with them.• Be Amazed: The universe is an incredible place. Stop what you’re doing and look around. • Know When to Pivot: Change is inevitable. Accept and embrace it. We all have our own personal “moon shots” we’d like to take in life, but as mission control will tell you, doing one big thing really means getting a thousand little things right along the way. Moonshot is the book that will show you how to do just that, and help set you on the right path to achieve your own personal and professional dreams.</p>
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
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The identify phase took 199.22 seconds
The longest time (-1.000000) was taken by: Google
Merging results from different sources
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
I haven't done that yet. The issue has started coming and going much more quickly, sometimes just minutes between getting results in seconds and waiting for timeouts to expire, sometimes on the same book. No changes to settings or running programs on the PC in between times.
Spoiler:
The first search:
Spoiler:
Quote:
Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Foreign Bodies', 'authors': ['Simon Schama'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 9)
The log from individual plugins is below
Not waiting any longer for more results. Still running sources:
Google
Amazon.com
****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 20.988726139068604
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/for...simon%20schama
Parsing search results
Considering search result: Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, by Simon Schama
Rejecting as not close enough match: Cuerpos extraños: Pandemias, by Simon Schama
B&N url: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/for...=9781328974839
Barnes & Noble timed out. Try again later.
****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading was aborted
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Title : Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : HarperCollins
Tags : History, Social History, Science, Life Sciences, Virology, Health & Fitness, Vaccinations
Languages : eng
Published : 2023-09-19T07:42:29.860964+00:00
Identifiers : google:f1mhEAAAQBAJ, isbn:9781328975317
Comments : <p>A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.</p>
<p>Characteristically, Schama’s message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.</p>
<p>At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as “the saviour of mankind” for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.</p>
<p>Foreign Bodies*crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, “there are no foreigners, only familiars.”</p>
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 9) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading was aborted
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Bodie...1&unfiltered=1
************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 199.53 seconds
The longest time (-1.000000) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
Then I searched again less than a minute later:
Spoiler:
Quote:
Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Foreign Bodies', 'authors': ['Simon Schama'], 'identifiers': {'isbn': '9781328975317', 'google': 'f1mhEAAAQBAJ'}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 9)
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 20.331106424331665
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/978...=9781328975317
match location: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/foreign-bodies-simon-schama/1142830289;jsessionid=1CDFD51C2DDDBA1E00F7E3B89226 B2A7.prodny_store01-atgap01?ean=9781328975317'
B&N url: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/for...=9781328975317
Failed to make details query: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/foreign-bodies-simon-schama/1142830289;jsessionid=1CDFD51C2DDDBA1E00F7E3B89226 B2A7.prodny_store01-atgap01?ean=9781328975317'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1238, in do_open
File "http\client.py", line 1378, in getresponse
File "http\client.py", line 318, in begin
File "http\client.py", line 287, in _read_status
http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.worker", line 47, in get_details
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error Remote end closed connection without response>
****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading from Google took 0.4710240364074707
---
Title : Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : HarperCollins
Tags : History, Social History, Science, Life Sciences, Virology, Health & Fitness, Vaccinations
Languages : eng
Published : 2023-09-19T07:43:45.937954+00:00
Identifiers : google:f1mhEAAAQBAJ, isbn:9781328975317
Comments : <p>A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.</p>
<p>Characteristically, Schama’s message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.</p>
<p>At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as “the saviour of mankind” for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.</p>
<p>Foreign Bodies*crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, “there are no foreigners, only familiars.”</p>
****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 9) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 5.273225784301758
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Title : Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Ecco
Languages : eng
Rating : 2
Published : 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon:B0BPSY3P52
Comments : <p><strong>A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama</strong></p>
<p>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.</p>
<p>Characteristically, Schama’s message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.</p>
<p>At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as “the saviour of mankind” for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.</p>
<p><em>Foreign Bodies</em> crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, “there are no foreigners, only familiars.” </p>
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Bodie...1&unfiltered=1
************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 20.44 seconds
The longest time (20.331106) was taken by: Barnes & Noble
Merging results from different sources
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
I noticed that now it was searching with the identifiers from the first search, so I took those out and immediately tried again, and still got a quick result:
Spoiler:
Quote:
Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Foreign Bodies', 'authors': ['Simon Schama'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 9)
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 19.387535095214844
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/for...simon%20schama
Failed to make identify query
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1238, in do_open
File "http\client.py", line 1378, in getresponse
File "http\client.py", line 318, in begin
File "http\client.py", line 287, in _read_status
http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.barnes_noble.__init__", line 164, in identify
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 29, in https_open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error Remote end closed connection without response>
****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 2 results
Downloading from Google took 1.3101508617401123
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Title : Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : HarperCollins
Tags : History, Social History, Science, Life Sciences, Virology, Health & Fitness, Vaccinations
Languages : eng
Published : 2023-09-19T07:44:28.283016+00:00
Identifiers : google:f1mhEAAAQBAJ, isbn:9781328975317
Comments : <p>A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.</p>
<p>Characteristically, Schama’s message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.</p>
<p>At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as “the saviour of mankind” for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.</p>
<p>Foreign Bodies*crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, “there are no foreigners, only familiars.”</p>
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Title : Cuerpos extraños: Pandemias, vacunas y salud de las naciones
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Prh Grupo Editorial
Tags : Health & Fitness, Vaccinations, History, Social History, Science, Life Sciences, Virology
Languages : spa
Published : 2024-05-21T07:44:28.604004+00:00
Identifiers : google:5ctb0AEACAAJ, isbn:9788499929576
Comments : <p>La narración perfecta de una historia de miedo, ingenio, persecución, colaboración y grandes logros, por el aclamado historiador Simon Schama. Países sumidos en el pánico, desesperados por conseguir vacunas, pero temerosos del efecto de las dosis. Lo hemos vivido con la COVID-19. En esta épica historia de pandemias y vacunas el historiador Simon Schama describe cómo humanos y virus han convivido durante milenios y cómo la humanidad se ha visto atrapada entre el terror al contagio y el ingenio de la ciencia. Con minuciosas explicaciones sobre los estragos de la viruela, el cólera o la peste, se engarzan apasionantes relatos y se presenta a un inolvidable elenco de personajes y ejemplos históricos, cruzando fronteras entre Oriente y Occidente con los que Schama demuestra que la erradicación de las enfermedades es una tarea no solo científica, sino también política, cultural y personal. En el meollo de la narración, un héroe olvidado: Waldemar Haffkine, estudiante judío, pistolero de Odesa convertido en microbiólogo del Insituto Pasteur y aclamado en Inglaterra como «salvador de la humanidad» por crear la primera línea de producción masiva de vacunas en Bombay e inmunizar a millones de personas contra el cólera y la peste bubónica. Este libro es también un firme recordatorio de la interconexión que nos vincula a la naturaleza y a nuestra propia especie. En última instancia, defiende Schama, afrontamos juntos determinados retos de nuestro tiempo, como por ejemplo la lucha contra peligrosas infecciones. En esos momentos, «no hay extranjeros, solo familiares». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, Schama's message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope - in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums - are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as "the saviour of mankind" for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world's first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice. Foreign Bodies crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature, of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, "there are no foreigners, only familiars.</p>
****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 9) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 4.913876533508301
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Title : Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Ecco
Languages : eng
Rating : 2
Published : 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon:B0BPSY3P52
Comments : <p><strong>A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama</strong></p>
<p>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.</p>
<p>Characteristically, Schama’s message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.</p>
<p>At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as “the saviour of mankind” for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.</p>
<p><em>Foreign Bodies</em> crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, “there are no foreigners, only familiars.” </p>
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Safari/605.1.15
Server: amazon
Downloading details from: https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Bodie...1&unfiltered=1
************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 19.43 seconds
The longest time (19.387535) was taken by: Barnes & Noble
Merging results from different sources
We have 2 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
It always seemed to be Amazon getting the longest time, so I disabled using Amazon as a source, but the issue didn't go away, it just shifted to Google the next time.
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Running it without Amazon:
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Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'The Power of Art', 'authors': ['Simon Schama'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5), Google (1, 1, 1)
The log from individual plugins is below
Not waiting any longer for more results. Still running sources:
Google
****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 2.01582670211792
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Title : The Power of Art
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Azbooka
Published : 2017-04-10T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : barnesnoble:1126233382, isbn:9785389130753
Comments : <p>"U velikogo iskusstva uzhasnye manery!" S pervyh strok ehtogo dramatichnogo povestvovaniya stanovitsya ochevidno: znamenityj istorik i populyarizator nauki Sajmon SHama ne nameren primeryat' na sebya rol' avtoritetnogo muzejnogo gida, nespeshno vedushchego ot shedevra k shedevru doverchivuyu gruppu zhazhdushchih prikosnut'sya k prekrasnomu. A potomu ne nadejtes' na legkuyu progulku po muzejnym zalam — vmesto nee ehkscentrichnyj provozhatyj, ni sekundy ne pomeshkav na poroge, prosto vtolknet vas v dveri masterskoj, gde v ehtot samyj moment yavlyaetsya na svet odno iz samyh znachimyh proizvedenij iskusstva. Vozmozhno, perspektiva stat' svidetelem ehtogo i licom k licu stolknut'sya s ego sozdatelem ne trevozhit vas zaranee? Nu chto zh, avtor postaraetsya ehto ispravit'. Reshitel'no sporya s temi, kto schitaet romanticheskimi skazkami istorii o myatushchihsya geniyah i muchitel'nosti akta tvoreniya, Sajmon SHama besstrashno rassuzhdaet o moshchi, kotoroj nevozmozhno protivostoyat', o nepreodolimoj zhazhde, o sokrushitel'noj strasti — o preobrazuyushchej sile iskusstva, pered licom kotoroj okazyvayutsya bessil'ny i zritel', i sam tvorec.</p>
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/the...simon%20schama
match location: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-power-of-art-simon-schama/1126233382;jsessionid=3CB40EBB87D3FE66BA785C898D3C 8508.prodny_store01-atgap03?ean=9785389130753'
B&N url: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...=9785389130753
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The identify phase took 32.26 seconds
The longest time (-1.000000) was taken by: Google
Merging results from different sources
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
Then I re-enabled Amazon, ran it again a few seconds later, and got very quick results:
Spoiler:
Quote:
Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'The Power of Art', 'authors': ['Simon Schama'], 'identifiers': {}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5), Google (1, 1, 1), Amazon.com (1, 3, 9)
The log from individual plugins is below
****************************** Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 5) ******************************
Found 1 results
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 1.940385341644287
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Title : The Power of Art
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Azbooka
Published : 2017-04-10T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : barnesnoble:1126233382, isbn:9785389130753
Comments : <p>"U velikogo iskusstva uzhasnye manery!" S pervyh strok ehtogo dramatichnogo povestvovaniya stanovitsya ochevidno: znamenityj istorik i populyarizator nauki Sajmon SHama ne nameren primeryat' na sebya rol' avtoritetnogo muzejnogo gida, nespeshno vedushchego ot shedevra k shedevru doverchivuyu gruppu zhazhdushchih prikosnut'sya k prekrasnomu. A potomu ne nadejtes' na legkuyu progulku po muzejnym zalam — vmesto nee ehkscentrichnyj provozhatyj, ni sekundy ne pomeshkav na poroge, prosto vtolknet vas v dveri masterskoj, gde v ehtot samyj moment yavlyaetsya na svet odno iz samyh znachimyh proizvedenij iskusstva. Vozmozhno, perspektiva stat' svidetelem ehtogo i licom k licu stolknut'sya s ego sozdatelem ne trevozhit vas zaranee? Nu chto zh, avtor postaraetsya ehto ispravit'. Reshitel'no sporya s temi, kto schitaet romanticheskimi skazkami istorii o myatushchihsya geniyah i muchitel'nosti akta tvoreniya, Sajmon SHama besstrashno rassuzhdaet o moshchi, kotoroj nevozmozhno protivostoyat', o nepreodolimoj zhazhde, o sokrushitel'noj strasti — o preobrazuyushchej sile iskusstva, pered licom kotoroj okazyvayutsya bessil'ny i zritel', i sam tvorec.</p>
Querying: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/the...simon%20schama
match location: 'https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-power-of-art-simon-schama/1126233382;jsessionid=807EC46C34712E7A6F83A03B89EF 44AA.prodny_store01-atgap02?ean=9785389130753'
B&N url: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...=9785389130753
****************************** Google (1, 1, 1) ******************************
Found 5 results
Downloading from Google took 2.3616557121276855
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Title : The Power of Art
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Harper Collins
Tags : Art, History, General
Languages : eng
Published : 2006-11-07T08:01:13.836894+00:00
Identifiers : google:Eetl7759gSkC, isbn:9780061176104
Comments : <p>"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. . . ." With the same disarming force, The Power of Art propels us on an eye-opening, breathtaking odyssey, zooming in on eight extraordinary masterpieces, from Caravaggio's David and Goliath to Picasso's Guernica. Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever. The embattled heroes—Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko—each in his own resolute way, faced crisis with steadfast defiance, pitting passion and conviction against scorn and short-sightedness. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world. With vivid storytelling and powerfully evocative descriptive passages, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of Civil War Spain. Most compelling of all, The Power of Art traces the extraordinary evolution of eight "eye-popping" world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination, such works "tell us something about how the world is, how it is to be inside our skins, that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that, they answer, irrefutably and majestically, the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript . . . 'OK, OK, but what's art really for?'"</p>
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Title : Simon Schama's Power of Art
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : BBC Books
Tags : Art, Criticism & Theory, History, General, Techniques, Painting, Biography & Autobiography
Languages : eng
Published : 2006-07-15T08:01:14.385489+00:00
Identifiers : google:UgRF99nCd38C, isbn:9780563487104
Comments : <p>'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' With the same disarming force, Power of Art jolts us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, as Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever. The embattled heroes - Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko - faced crisis with steadfast defiance. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world. With powerfully vivid story-telling, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeouis life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of civil-war Spain. Most compelling of all, Power of Art traces the extraordinary evolution of eight world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination, such works 'tell us something about how the world is, how it is to be inside our skins, that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that they answer, irrefutably and majestically, the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript... "OK, OK, but what's art really for?"</p>
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Title : Wordy: Sounding Off on High Art, Low Appetite and the Power of Memory
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Limited
Tags : Biography & Autobiography, General, History, World, Literary Collections, Essays
Languages : eng
Published : 2019-07-15T08:01:15.254886+00:00
Identifiers : google:L4unugEACAAJ, isbn:9781471180095
Comments : <p>'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time. It's also a reflection on writers who have been shamelessly gloried in verbal abundance; the performing tumble of language - those who have especially inspired me - Dickens and Melvil≤ Joyce and Marquez.' Simon Schama Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award-winning columnist for many of the world's foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines. His commissioned subjects over the years have been numerous and wide ranging - from the music of Tom Waits, to the works of Sir Quentin Blake; the history of the colour blue, to discussing what skills an actor needs to create a unique performance of Falstaff. Schama's tastes are wide-ranging as they are eloquent, incisive, witty and thought provoking and have entertained and educated the readers of some of the world's most respected publications - the Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone magazine. Wordy is a celebration of one of the world's foremost writers. This collection of fifty essays chosen by the man himself stretches across four decades and is a treasure trove for all those who have a passion for the arts, politics, food and life.</p>
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Title : Simon Schama's Power of Art : [Part 3] : [DVD]
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Languages : eng
Published : 2006-07-15T08:01:14.739049+00:00
Identifiers : google:slkY0AEACAAJ, isbn:9781419851858
Comments : <p>Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transports the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.</p>
<p>Performed by: presenter, Simon Schama. Paul Popplewell as Caravaggio, Andrea Gherpelli as Bernini, Aubrey Wakeling as David, Mark Hyde as Turner, Andy Serkis as Van Gogh, Pep Cortes as Picasso, Alan Corduner as Rothko.</p>
<p>Originally broadcast on television in 2006.Contains 8 episodes from the television series.</p>
<p>"Due to contractual restrictions, certain edits have been made to the originally transmitted programs.</p>
<p>"Special features: audio commentaries with Simon Schama, Clare Beavan, David Belton & Andy Serkis ; interview with Simon Schama (disc 3).</p>
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Title : Simon Schama's Power of Art : [Part 1] : [DVD].
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : BBC Worldwide
Languages : eng
Published : 2010-07-15T08:01:14.971753+00:00
Identifiers : google:qfRNcgAACAAJ
Comments : <p>Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.</p>
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
****************************** Amazon.com (1, 3, 9) ******************************
Found 3 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 6.512150049209595
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Title : The Power of Art
Author(s) : Simon Schama
Publisher : Ecco
Languages : eng
Rating : 2.4
Published : 2006-11-07T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon:0061176109, isbn:0061176109
Comments : <p>"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. . . ."</p>
<p>With the same disarming force, <em>The Power of Art</em> propels us on an eye-opening, breathtaking odyssey, zooming in on eight extraordinary masterpieces, from Caravaggio's <em>David and Goliath</em> to Picasso's <em>Guernica</em>. Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever.</p>
<p>The embattled heroes—Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko—each in his own resolute way, faced crisis with steadfast defiance, pitting passion and conviction against scorn and short-sightedness. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world.</p>
<p>With vivid storytelling and powerfully evocative descriptive passages, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of Civil War Spain.</p>
<p>Most compelling of all, <em>The Power of Art</em> traces the extraordinary evolution of eight "eye-popping" world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination, such works "tell us something about how the world is, how it is to be inside our skins, that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that, they answer, irrefutably and majestically, the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript . . . 'OK, OK, but what's art really for?'"</p>
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Title : Simon Schama's Power of Art
Author(s) : Simon Schama:
Publisher : London: BBC Books, 2006.
Languages : eng
Rating : 2.2
Published : 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon:0563487100, isbn:9780563487104
Comments : <p>"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. . . ." </p>
<p>With the same disarming force, <em>The Power of Art</em> propels us on an eye-opening, breathtaking odyssey, zooming in on eight extraordinary masterpieces, from Caravaggio's <em>David and Goliath</em> to Picasso's <em>Guernica</em>. Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever. </p>
<p>The embattled heroes—Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko—each in his own resolute way, faced crisis with steadfast defiance, pitting passion and conviction against scorn and short-sightedness. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world. </p>
<p>With vivid storytelling and powerfully evocative descriptive passages, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of Civil War Spain. </p>
<p>Most compelling of all, <em>The Power of Art</em> traces the extraordinary evolution of eight "eye-popping" world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination, such works "tell us something about how the world is, how it is to be inside our skins, that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that, they answer, irrefutably and majestically, the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript . . . 'OK, OK, but what's art really for?'"</p>
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The identify phase took 6.64 seconds
The longest time (6.512150) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 5 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds
The wildly different results between those two searches are also suspicious to me. Five results from Google in 2.6 seconds the second time, after timing out the first?
These logs are getting really repetitive and giving more doesn't seem particularly helpful, so I think I'll stop there until I try safe mode. Is it just my internet connection? I haven't noticed any wild swings in reliability generally; it's really solid for everything else I do. If it were a firewall thing I don't understand how it would go back and forth in seconds.
I have suddenly seen the ame thing where a handful will work fine then suddenly all but Goodreads starts failing. When I look at the errors most of them seem to be "http error 429: too many requests". The main trigger seems to be:
I search for covers and get lots of options
I select an option I think looks good and let it load
Once it loads, I find it is lower quality than expected, so I do the same search again and that makes most searches start getting 429 blocked
This state persist for over 15 minutes so I end up walking away and trying again and then it is okay.
However, this is not the only trigger as some times just doing a few books in a row will also trigger it.
Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A
Hitting a source (server) to frequently can get us (users) banned either temporary or forever. We want to be able to continue making use of these. Please do not hammer a source by doing massive fetches (different books) in a short period.
Have you tampered with the time between checks?
Preferences: Metadata Download: Time to wait(S)
The defaults were 30s and 60s
07-03-2024, 09:59 AM
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