07-31-2010, 04:58 AM | #1 |
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Metadata download plugins
First of all, much appreciation for Calibre (its creator and contributors) which I have just installed a couple of days ago and am getting to know.
I have a question about the metadata download plugins and I haven't found an answer searching through the documentation or this forum. When I hit the fetch the metadata button the next screen reads that calibre can find metadata form Google Books and isbmdb, however thare are two more plugins (Amazon and LibraryThing) active - what's the deal here? Also, sometimes I don't seem to be able to obtain description/reviews, even though they clearly exists on, fe, Amazon (same ISBN, plugin preferences checked). Thanks for your help |
07-31-2010, 08:42 AM | #2 | ||
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07-31-2010, 09:29 AM | #3 |
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librarything and amazon are used to get social metadata rating/tags/reviews/series etc. from isbn. The other two are used to get basic metadata from title/author or isbn
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07-31-2010, 11:25 PM | #4 | |
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Fortunately you have allowed us to disable plugins. I have chose to disable librarything for the same reason Starson17 wrote code to prevent the auto metadata download from overwriting Author and/or Title fields. I found this wonderful plugin overwriting my Series names and it bugged me. Keep up the good work. |
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