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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Amazon IDs get inserted into the mobi-asin field.
I use a saved S&R almost identical to yours, called "mobi-asin to amazon" -- and use it on all my books as they come into the library.  |
Hey eschwartz thanks for the reply.
It's got me a bit confused though. You mean to say that this is already automatically done? If so, why do you use an S&R as well? Or were you responding to theducks, confirming that the S&R does indeed copy the Amazon ID into the mobi-asin field?
I'm still pretty confused on the whole mobi-asin interaction, but I was pretty sure that the one thing I understood was that manually setting it myself to the correct ASIN enabled me to use goodreads. My assumption is that if you don't manually specify a mobi-asin, then Calibre inserts a random UUID that is neither a real ASIN nor the Amazon ID.
That's why I figured the next best thing I could do was to use a S&R to just copy over the Amazon ID.
Off-topic: One thing I'm investigating now is whether there's a difference (to the Kindle) between the Kindle book version's ASIN and the physical (hardcover, paperback, etc.) versions of the same book. I've already tested a book with a hardcover version's ASIN and it seemed to work, now I'm going to try using the actual kindle book version's ASIN to see if there's any difference.