05-20-2010, 04:42 PM | #1 |
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Updating Metadata without and ISBN
Is there any way to update metadata without the ISBN? Any type of addon or anything at all? If not then does anyone know of a program that can look up the book information of a ebook based on the author and title metadata?
I have about 325 ebooks and some of the info is missing like summary and ISBN but the Author and Titles are right. I really do not want to have to search the web for all the ISBNs by hand. Aloha Herby |
05-20-2010, 05:22 PM | #2 |
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calibre looks up metadata with just and author and title
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05-20-2010, 05:59 PM | #3 |
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I cant even do that with Calibre at the moment - it wont retrieve anything! Even with the isbn.
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05-20-2010, 11:26 PM | #4 |
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you can find the ISBN with a search engine yourself usually if calibre doesn't
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05-20-2010, 11:31 PM | #5 |
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Calibre used to do get the ISBN automatically, but since a couple of days ago my calibre doesnt seem to be able to access (download) anything to do with metadata!
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05-21-2010, 08:54 AM | #7 |
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When I read this yesterday, I checked, and metadata download worked correctly for me. There was a short period, perhaps 24 hours long, where the GoogleBooks lookup wasn't working - Google was down or had changed something - but that wasn't the issue. I'd check your firewall, router, etc.
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05-22-2010, 01:16 AM | #8 |
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Hey there, I am all good now. Kovid suggested that the proxies were being hijacked and to fix them up. Google was my friend and told me how to do that!
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