Odd Behavior in Author Metadata in latest update (8.10)

Philosopher · 07-22-2011, 06:21 AM

OK - I have been trying to figure this one out to no avail. Ever since I updated to 8.10 a strange thing seems to be happening when I download metadata.

The title isn't appearing - but instead what appears to be an edition tag seems to be inserted there instead.

So for example instead of getting "Book Title" or "Book Title, 2nd Edition" - I am getting "Edition 2".

I also note the word order - as it seems to be generating it in that specific order - not "Second Edition" but "Edition 2".

I have tried to figure out how/why it is doing this - and how to alter it - but to no avail.

Anyone have a clue (is this happening to anyone else)?

Philosopher · 07-22-2011, 06:27 AM

To add further info - it does not always do this - but quite often.

And I have never had it happen before.

I wonder if this happens when a book's metadata includes an entry for the edition of the text - and somehow when this exists - it replaces the title. But this is just a guess.

Philosopher · 07-22-2011, 06:34 AM

Of course it could be a simple coincidence - that for some reason the metadata that is out there for the particular books that I have encountered this with - have that text as its title.

But I suspect it is something else - primarily because it (a) always has edition as the title (rather than the title), (b) always has it in that form "Edition #", and (c) never has anything else (even if different from the text of the title).

And the books were from different publishers, etc.

But one thing that I have to add is that all the books that I have downloaded metadata for (and have had this happen with) since updating to 8.10 have been in the same general category (language and linguistics in particular) - so its not been entirely random, but I would think there was enough variance for this to be more than mere coincidence - particularly since occurred a significant number of times (and all since updating - and never before).

I add these details in case this helps anyone to figure out what is going on.

DoctorOhh · 07-22-2011, 07:23 AM

What do you have for book info prior to downloading metadata? Give us an example so we can see what you're seeing.

Philosopher · 07-25-2011, 05:28 PM

OK - this is the latest example I have had of this:

TITLE: German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German, revised edition
AUTHOR: April Wilson
isbn:0-8204-6759-6

When I download the metadata - the title is replaced by: Edition 4

theducks · 07-25-2011, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Philosopher

OK - this is the latest example I have had of this:

TITLE: German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German, revised edition
AUTHOR: April Wilson
isbn:0-8204-6759-6

When I download the metadata - the title is replaced by: Edition 4

I don't author, title turned on.
I reviewed the Log and did not see 'Edition 4'
there.

I DID see:

Code:

****************************** ISBNDB ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3')] 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from ISBNDB took 0.71799993515 
Failed to make query to ISBNDb, aborting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\isbndb.py", line 109, in identify
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\isbndb.py", line 216, in make_query
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\isbndb.py", line 154, in parse_feed
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'find' 

********************************************************************************

kovidgoyal · 07-25-2011, 05:44 PM

@philosopher: You've got some plugin that is returning that metadata. Look at the log to find out which one it is.

DoctorOhh · 07-25-2011, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Philosopher

OK - this is the latest example I have had of this:

TITLE: German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German, revised edition
AUTHOR: April Wilson
isbn:0-8204-6759-6

When I download the metadata - the title is replaced by: Edition 4

The downloaded metadata from Barnes and Noble reported Edition 4 as the title. If you don't want your title overwritten by downloaded metadata then go into configure download metadata (see attached) and uncheck title.

Spoiler:

Philosopher · 07-25-2011, 10:48 PM

Hmmm. Thanks.

Is there a way to tell it to only not download titles from Barnes and Noble?

DoctorOhh · 07-25-2011, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Philosopher

Hmmm. Thanks.

Is there a way to tell it to only not download titles from Barnes and Noble?

No, but you can choose from where you download metadata. Look at the attachment in my post above.

07-22-2011, 06:21 AM	#1
Philosopher Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	Odd Behavior in Author Metadata in latest update (8.10) OK - I have been trying to figure this one out to no avail. Ever since I updated to 8.10 a strange thing seems to be happening when I download metadata. The title isn't appearing - but instead what appears to be an edition tag seems to be inserted there instead. So for example instead of getting "Book Title" or "Book Title, 2nd Edition" - I am getting "Edition 2". I also note the word order - as it seems to be generating it in that specific order - not "Second Edition" but "Edition 2". I have tried to figure out how/why it is doing this - and how to alter it - but to no avail. Anyone have a clue (is this happening to anyone else)?

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07-22-2011, 06:27 AM	#2
Philosopher Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	To add further info - it does not always do this - but quite often. And I have never had it happen before. I wonder if this happens when a book's metadata includes an entry for the edition of the text - and somehow when this exists - it replaces the title. But this is just a guess.

07-22-2011, 06:34 AM	#3
Philosopher Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	Of course it could be a simple coincidence - that for some reason the metadata that is out there for the particular books that I have encountered this with - have that text as its title. But I suspect it is something else - primarily because it (a) always has edition as the title (rather than the title), (b) always has it in that form "Edition #", and (c) never has anything else (even if different from the text of the title). And the books were from different publishers, etc. But one thing that I have to add is that all the books that I have downloaded metadata for (and have had this happen with) since updating to 8.10 have been in the same general category (language and linguistics in particular) - so its not been entirely random, but I would think there was enough variance for this to be more than mere coincidence - particularly since occurred a significant number of times (and all since updating - and never before). I add these details in case this helps anyone to figure out what is going on.

07-22-2011, 07:23 AM	#4
DoctorOhh US Navy, Retired Posts: 9,864 Karma: 13806776 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Nexus 7	What do you have for book info prior to downloading metadata? Give us an example so we can see what you're seeing.

07-25-2011, 05:28 PM	#5
Philosopher Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	OK - this is the latest example I have had of this: TITLE: German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German, revised edition AUTHOR: April Wilson isbn:0-8204-6759-6 When I download the metadata - the title is replaced by: Edition 4

07-25-2011, 05:44 PM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@philosopher: You've got some plugin that is returning that metadata. Look at the log to find out which one it is.

07-25-2011, 10:48 PM	#9
Philosopher Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	Hmmm. Thanks. Is there a way to tell it to only not download titles from Barnes and Noble?

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