06-24-2011, 05:43 PM | #166 |
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Thanks CapM, I will use that and move my isbn's and then run the script to see if my isbn matches.
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Create 3 custom columns: #oldisbn #newisbn #isbncompare -- a column built from other columns, sort/search by Yes/No {#isbncompare:'strcmp(field('#oldisbn'), field('#newisbn'), 'No', 'Yes', 'No')'} Save the existing isbn to #oldisbn Clear isbn Run Extract ISBN Copy the new isbn to #newisbn browse and observe ... |
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I got an interesting one:
First page of the book: Code:
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link – Myth 07 By Robert Asprin 1 Another Fine Myth 0-441-02362-2 1978 Ace 2 Myth Conceptions 0-441-55521-7 1980 Ace 3 Myth Directions 0-441-55529-2 1982 Ace 4 Hit or Myth 0-441-33851-8 1983 Ace 5 Myth-ing Persons 0-441-55276-5 1984 Ace 6 Little Myth Marker 0-441-48499-9 1985 Ace --->M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link 0-441-55277-3 1986 Ace 8 Myth-nomers & Im-pervections 0-441-55279-X 1987 Ace 9 M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action 0-441-55282-X 1990 Ace 10 Sweet Myth-tery of Life 0-441-00194-7 1994 Ace 11 Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. Not yet released ? Ace If you would process it automatically, the way to go would be to look for the title on the same row as the isbn. This could be done in case you finde more than one isbn. At this moment, this is the first book (series) I found with this kind of identification. Don't know if anyone else has seen it before? |
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Thanks the period worked.
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And then there it is, a second series:
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#01: The Vanishings ISBN 0-8423-2193-4 Page 64 #02: Second Chance ISBN 0-8423-2194-2 #03: Through the Flames ISBN 0-8423-2195-0 #04: Facing the Future ISBN 0-8423-2196-9 #05: Nicolae High ISBN 0-8423-4325-3 #06: The Underground ISBN 0-8423-4326-1 #07: Busted! ISBN 0-8423-4327-X #08: Death Strike ISBN 0-8423-4328-8 #09: The Search ISBN 0-8423-4329-6 #10: On The Run ISBN 0-8423-4330-X _________________________ |
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@drMerry - you are dreaming if you think this plugin is going to ever attempt to detect that situation. Remember this plugin was changed to not even attempt to match the single "ISBN" type prefix due to all the ambiguities, they are far worse trying to match on title.
Consider this the same situation as a publisher advertising another book inside - the plugin can never detect that nor will it attempt to. "Most of the time" it will get things right, and sometimes in situations like this it won't, such is life. |
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At this moment I'm not very active on the forum. So I do not know what you are working on at all. This was just something I found and thought you might want to have it on a wish list for some time. (I found more books that where not right indexed, but this is one version that has a possibility to be solved computer based.) I think most new functions on this plugin will be 'extended search'. Or, how to chose the most likley right isbn number if more ar found. That's why I mentioned it. Maybe, someday I will try to build some of that functions. But for now I fully understand that/why you are not implementing this function. |
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Hi kiwidude!
I'm breaking things again ... Code:
calibre, version 0.8.7 ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>NameError</b>:global name 'question_dialog' is not defined Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\message_box.py", line 199, in do_proceed File "calibre_plugins.extract_isbn.action", line 130, in _check_proceed_with_extracted_isbns NameError: global name 'question_dialog' is not defined |
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I found a new option.
If there is no isbn available, but you can find a 9-digit number, it is possible this is a pre-isbn. A sbn-number. Adding a 0 in front of this number creates a valid isbn-number. Quote:
E.g. in my library: DT book used for version 1.1 reference: SBN 4260 5012 6 To get a valid isbn add 0: 04260 5012 6 Last edited by drMerry; 06-27-2011 at 02:20 PM. Reason: Added example |
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v1.3.7 Released
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There is a variant on the sbn version:
sbn: 345-24366-8-150 gives a valid isbn by adding a 0 in front and removing the last numbers to gain a 10 digit number 0345-24366-8 |
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@drMerry - I don't want to do that because it increases further the likelihood of false ISBNs. Perhaps it is a specific publisher or country specific thing, but I haven't (knowingly) come across any books yet that fall into that scenario. Supporting such an edge case is only going to weaken the match quality for the majority of cases.
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Well, at the moment I have about 1000 books having no isbn but do have a sbn.
So I think there will be more people having it. When I manually add the sbn as isbn, I often get a match downloading the metadata so it could be a nice option. |
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