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Originally Posted by bucsie

thanks.
I did that, but now the metadata download returns an error message saying that librarything has blocked calibre

I'm afraid I can't help you there. Here are a couple of posts from Kovid over the last couple of days on the subject.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

LibraryThing often blocks calibre, I encourage you to complain to library thing, though I doubt they'll listen since they apparently only want you to use their service via a browser. So you're likely going to be stuck with openlibrary covers.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Note that I've found that even after entering your username and password LT will block calibre from time to time.

For what it's worth, earlier today I used the download only social metadata feature from the dropdown metadata menu and received series information.