Can't find and download metadata anymore

Maria Loranger · 07-10-2018, 02:44 PM

I am new here so, if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I apologize.
I have been using Calibre for a few years, without problems.
Recently (several weeks), however, everytime I try to download metadata, I receive the "ERROR: No matches found" message.
I am at version 3.27.1, on Windows 10. I am in Canada.
I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.

Here is the log:

Spoiler:

Divingduck · 07-10-2018, 05:43 PM

Looks good for me with Amazon.com and Amazon.de:

Spoiler:

Maybe the server had a problem.

DoctorOhh · 07-10-2018, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maria Loranger

I receive the "ERROR: No matches found" message.
I am at version 3.27.1, on Windows 10. I am in Canada.
I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.

Here is the log:
calibre, version 2.31.0
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details.

Your log says you are using calibre version 2.31.0 are you sure you are running 3.27.1?

I just did the same search here are my results.

Spoiler:

You can go to Calibre Preferences - Plugins - Metadata source plugins - Amazon.com - customize plugin and choose a different country, could be Amazon has blocked you. Alternatively you could choose different servers to scrape the data.

Additionally you can add other metadata source plugins. If you review my log you'll see I have the following plugins downloading metadata

Barnes & Noble
Goodreads
Fantastic Fiction
Kobo Books
Google
Amazon.com
Overdrive

You can go to Calibre Preferences - Plugins - Get new plugins to add other sources for downloading metadata. These plugins are described in the Index of plugins sticky post at the top of the Plugins forum.

Good Luck.

Maria Loranger · 07-11-2018, 01:33 PM

Thank you for your reply.

1) Indeed, I appear to be running version 2.31.

PS C:\Users\Maria> calibredb --version
Qt: Untested Windows version 10.0 detected!
calibredb.exe (calibre 2.31 [64bit])

Also, in the Calibre window I am told "Update found: 3.27.1"
This leaves me confused, since I ran calibre-64bit-3.27.1.msi without any problems and when I try to run it again I get the options to Change - Repair - Remove, so the 3.27.1 seems to be installed. I am lost...

2) When it comes to the metadata sources:
- I am in Canada, but I do not have a choice of Amazon for Canada. I used the default (US) and it used to work - now it does not. I tried Germany and France - failure.
- I also tried Google by itself and Overdrive by itself - failure in both cases. the ISBN has a red "X" next to it.
- I will try to see about using a plugin and report back
Of course, the most frustrating thing is that it used to work and now it does'n, although I have changed nothing, just applied updates when told to
I am very grateful for any help you may continue to offer.

Maria Loranger · 07-11-2018, 01:52 PM

Installed Amazon Multiple Countries plugin - still failure.

DNSB · 07-11-2018, 01:58 PM

It looks almost as if you have two instances of calibre installed or the installation of 3.27.1 is being blocked.

When you look in Apps and Features, does it show only one instance of calibre installed? You can also try opening a command prompt and typing "where calibredb.exe" without the quotes and hit enter. This should return "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibredb.exe" for the normal install. This does assume that the path to the calibre executables is in the system path variable.

Code:

C:\Users\David>where calibredb.exe
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibredb.exe

C:\Users\David>where calibre.exe
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe

C:\Users\David>where where.exe
C:\Windows\System32\where.exe

If only one instance of calibre shows as installed, you may want to uninstall calibre which should not affect your library/plugins/etc. and then re-installing.

Maria Loranger · 07-11-2018, 02:54 PM

If I do, I can't find any trace of it. Not in Apps and Features, nor through cmd.
:\Users\Maria>where calibre.exe
:\Program files\Calibre2\calibre.exe

Divingduck · 07-11-2018, 05:06 PM

You maybe need admin rights. Start cmd with admin rights, type "set" or "path" and hit enter in the cmd window. You will get a report about your environment variables. Take a look to the "Path=" section. There should be an entry like
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\
or
C:\Program Files (86)\Calibre2\
for calibre if you have a local installation.

If not, you probably run a portable version with a linked program icon. You can right-click this link and look for its properties.

Maria Loranger · 07-11-2018, 05:45 PM

Running cmd.exe with Administrator rights, I got the path C:\Program Files\Calibre2 - pls see below:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>path
PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\ System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShel l\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Acer\abFiles\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WI NDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32 \WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files

Maria Loranger · 07-11-2018, 06:03 PM

More testing. Tried to download (or re-download) metadata for some books that have been in my database for a while. Results were inconclusive: it worked for some, did not for others. Then I had to instal the latest Windows Updates (nothing special, just today's updates). Continued testing metadata download: miracle! Now it works for most those I tried and if not, repeating the attempt with only author's last name and one word of the title produced desired result!
How did that happen???

DNSB · 07-11-2018, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maria Loranger

More testing. Tried to download (or re-download) metadata for some books that have been in my database for a while. Results were inconclusive: it worked for some, did not for others. Then I had to instal the latest Windows Updates (nothing special, just today's updates). Continued testing metadata download: miracle! Now it works for most those I tried and if not, repeating the attempt with only author's last name and one word of the title produced desired result!
How did that happen???

We don't believe in miracles, we just depend on them. Unwritten motto of many IT departments.

Did you uninstall calibre and then re-install it to see if this fixed your issues with the version not updating?

Maria Loranger · 07-11-2018, 07:03 PM

No, never get even got around to it!

Divingduck · 07-12-2018, 06:50 AM

Quote:

Running cmd.exe with Administrator rights, I got the path C:\Program Files\Calibre2 - pls see below:

The results tell you there is at least one calibre 64 bit installation that you can uninstall or update (as we know already

).
As DNSB mentioned, you should really reinstall calibre. Download the actual installation from the official site https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64
For the following action take care you user account have admin rights.
Uninstall calibre via control panel ->programs, boot your system (usually not needed but just in case...), make a new installation and allow all activities for calibre if there is a request from your security software.

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By the way, there was going something with what DNSB mentioned to you. The command "where" should give you a result, as there is an active installation. Maybe a typo or a restricted user account. You can check this if you like. Copy this one in your cmd window with admin rights and hit enter:
where /F /T calibre*.*

This should show you all files with time stamp and locations starting with the name calibre (usually 8 files).

Maria Loranger · 07-14-2018, 11:02 AM

Thank you so much for all your help!
Yes, I shall reinstall Calibre, after uninstalling it and cleaning everything, including the registry.
In the meantime, this is the result of the "where" command:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.165]
(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>where /F /T calibre*.*
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-complete.exe"
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-customize.exe"
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-debug.exe"
32256 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-eject.exe"
43008 19-Jun-15 8:52:12 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-launcher.dll"
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-parallel.exe"
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-server.exe"
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-smtp.exe"
172032 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe"
24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibredb.exe"

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Maria Loranger · 07-14-2018, 06:33 PM

I went through the whole procedure of removing Calibre and cleaning.

- I removed existing Calibre (through Programs and Features)
- I ran CCleaner
- I cleaned the Registry (with CCleaner)
- I restarted my laptop
- I downloaded Calibre again (for Windows 10, 64 bit)

When I attempted to install Calibre again and I obtained the message :

"The installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\calibre 64bit - E-book Management\calibre 64bit - E-book Management.lnk. "

I have never seen this message before aand I don't know what it means, so I stopped the installation.

- I manually removed all traces of Calbre (Registry, folders)
- I ran a quick anti-virus scan

I downloaded Calibre again rom the same page (https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64), attempted to install it and got the same error message ("The installer has insufficient privileges ...). Cancelled the installation.

Downloaded Calibre again, but this time from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows (so, I presume, it's 32 but?).
This version installed and loaded the Calibre Library without any problems.

I would appreciate any comments.
Thank you,
ML

07-10-2018, 02:44 PM	#1
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	Can't find and download metadata anymore I am new here so, if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I apologize. I have been using Calibre for a few years, without problems. Recently (several weeks), however, everytime I try to download metadata, I receive the "ERROR: No matches found" message. I am at version 3.27.1, on Windows 10. I am in Canada. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you. Here is the log: Spoiler: calibre, version 2.31.0 ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details. Running identify query with parameters: {u'title': u'The Shadow of the Wind', u'authors': [u'Carlos Ruiz Zafon'], u'identifiers': {}, u'timeout': 30} Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com, Overdrive The log from individual plugins is below **************************** Google ************************** 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 Google took 2.80000019073 ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Overdrive ************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] Found 0 results Downloading from Overdrive took 3.96300005913 Initial query is Carlos Ruiz Zafon Cross reference query is Shadow ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Amazon.com ************************** Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] Found 0 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 14.4979999065 Could not find title/authors/asin for 'https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sombra-Do-Vento-Shadow-Portuguese/dp/856028009X/ref=sr_1_4/261-9664058-8170033?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531248029&sr=1-4' ASIN: u'856028009X' Title: u'A Sombra Do Vento - The Shadow of the Wind - (Em Portuguese do Brasil)' Authors: [] Could not find title/authors/asin for 'https://www.amazon.co.uk/Labyrinth-Spirits-bestselling-author-Shadow/dp/1474606202/ref=sr_1_5/261-9664058-8170033?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531248029&sr=1-5' ASIN: u'1474606202' Title: u'The Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind' Authors: [] Could not find title/authors/asin for 'https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carlos-Author-Shadow-Sep-2014-Hardcover/dp/B00Q60T66C/ref=sr_1_3/261-9664058-8170033?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531248029&sr=1-3' ASIN: u'B00Q60T66C' Title: u'By Ruiz Zafon, Carlos ( Author ) [ The Shadow of the Wind By Sep-2014 Hardcover' Authors: [] Could not find title/authors/asin for 'https://www.amazon.co.uk/Labyrinth-Spirits-bestselling-Cemetery-Forgotten/dp/1474606180/ref=sr_1_1/261-9664058-8170033?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531248029&sr=1-1' ASIN: u'1474606180' Title: u'The Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind (Cemetery of Forgotten Books 4)' Authors: [] Could not find title/authors/asin for 'https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Wind-Cemetery-Forgotten-Books/dp/0753820250/ref=sr_1_2/261-9664058-8170033?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531248029&sr=1-2' ASIN: u'0753820250' Title: u'The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1' Authors: [] ********************************************** **************************** The identify phase took 15.27 seconds The longest time (14.498000) was taken by: Amazon.com Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds Last edited by DoctorOhh; 07-10-2018 at 08:09 PM. Reason: Added Spoiler tag

07-10-2018, 05:43 PM	#2
Divingduck Wizard Posts: 1,161 Karma: 1404241 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Germany Device: Sony PRS-650	Looks good for me with Amazon.com and Amazon.de: Spoiler: Running identify query with parameters: {u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'The Shadow of the Wind', u'identifiers': {}, u'authors': [u'Carlos Ruiz Zafon']} Using plugins: BOL_DE (0, 7, 5), Goodreads (1, 1, 14), Google (1, 0, 0), Amazon.com (1, 2, 2), Edelweiss (2, 0, 1), Overdrive (1, 0, 0), Douban Books (2, 1, 0), OZON.ru (1, 1, 0) The log from individual plugins is below **************************** Goodreads (1, 1, 14) ************************** Found 1 results Downloading from Goodreads took 13.7909998894 --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafón Publisher : Penguin Books Tags : Mystery, Fantasy Series : El cementerio de los libros olvidados #1 Languages : eng Rating : 2.1 Published : 2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 Identifiers : isbn:9780143034902, goodreads:1232 Comments : <p>The international literary sensation, about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. </p> <p>Barcelona, 1945 - just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly. </p> <p>As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons—The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?—but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, "The originality of Ruiz Zafón’s voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature." An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller’s art.</p> Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?sear...e=books&search[query]=The+Shadow+of+the+Wind+Carlos+Ruiz+Zafon no isbn response: <Element html at 0x1a32bf400e8> Goodreads book url: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind?from_search=true' parse_authors - author: Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n parse_authors - author: Lucia Graves (Translator) parse_authors - author: Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n parse_authors - author: Lucia Graves parse_details - mi: Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Overdrive (1, 0, 0) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Overdrive took 5.71900010109 Initial query is Carlos Ruiz Zafon Cross reference query is Shadow ********************************************** ************************** ************************** BOL_DE (0, 7, 5) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from BOL_DE took 3.79899978638 Querying title based: http://www.bol.de/shop/home/suche/?s...Zafon&sswg=ANY No matches found with query: u'http://www.bol.de/shop/home/suche/?sq=The+Shadow+of+the+Wind+Carlos+Ruiz+Zafon&sswg= ANY' ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Douban Books (2, 1, 0) ************************** Found 7 results Downloading from Douban Books took 17.609000206 --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher : Orion Pub Co Tags : 西班牙, 小说, 外国文学, 风之影, English, 爱情, 英文原版, 原版书 Rating : 2.1 Published : 2004-09-30T21:30:39.762000+00:00 Identifiers : douban:1460802, isbn:9780753819319 Comments : Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the cemetery of lost books , a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out La Sombra del Viento by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from La Sombra del Viento, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax s work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafón Publisher : Penguin Books Tags : 哥特, 小说, 英文小说, CarlosRuizZafón, 英文原版, 纯爱, 西班牙, 萨丰 Rating : 2.2 Published : 2005-02-28T21:30:45.895000+00:00 Identifiers : douban:1348167, isbn:9780143034902 Comments : Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind , by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax’s other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author’s identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret. --- Title : 風中的瑪麗娜 Author(s) : 卡洛斯·魯依斯·薩豐 & Carlos Ruiz Zafón Publisher : 皇冠文化出版有限公司 Tags : 卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰, 西班牙文学, 西班牙, Carlos_Ruiz_Zafón, 外国文学, 萨丰, 小说, Zafón Rating : 2.2 Published : 2012-02-29T21:30:49.150000+00:00 Identifiers : douban:10473624, isbn:9789573328803 Comments : 《風之影》作者薩豐：這是所有作品中，我最偏愛的一本！亞馬遜書店讀者四顆半星感動讚譽！每個人的內心深處，都緊鎖著一個秘密，而妳，便是我不能言說的過去，以及癡心守候的未來…… 那年、那月、那日的那瞬清晨，從此改變了少年奧斯卡的一生。那一天，奧斯卡遇見了瑪麗娜。在薄霧輕舞的老街上，這名帶著神秘微笑的謎樣少女，讓少年的悸動無所遁形。奧斯卡喜歡趁傍晚偷溜出嚴格的寄宿學校，穿梭在巴塞隆納的靜巷間，享受片刻醉人的自由。而自從認識了瑪麗娜，對自由的渴望卻轉成了對見面的期待，只要跟著女孩，他願意去世上任何的地方！沒想到瑪麗娜帶他去的，卻是通往另一個世界的入口。那是一座被時光遺忘的墓園，也早已被愛所遺忘，留下的只有無數躁動的幽魂。但在園內一處僻靜的角落，奧斯卡發現還有另一個人記得這裡－－那是一名黑衣婦人，她正靜靜凝視著一塊墓碑，上面有隻黑蝴蝶圖案，彷彿要掙脫死靈束縛般奮力展翅。突然間，奧斯卡耳邊響起瑪麗娜的聲音：「你知道嗎？傳說死亡有它的使者，徘徊在大街小巷，尋找那些從沒思考過它的無知者……」這是一個關於真愛與友誼、關於人生岔路與巧合的故事，狂熱、焦慮或盛怒，使得每一個角色做出了不同的選擇，也因而踏上不同的道路，即便那條路可能通往地獄，也心甘情願。在薩豐完美糅合現實與想像的魔幻之筆下，充滿光影與霧氣的巴塞隆納是如此迷人，而書中迷離炫幻的情節，更令所有讀者皆為之沉醉。 ◎聯合推薦名作家／甘耀明中央研究院歐美研究所特聘研究員／李有成「星空」導演／林書宇魔幻愛情女王／深雪名作家／鍾文音人氣女大生／蘿莉塔 --- Title : 天使游戏 Author(s) : [西] 卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰(carlos Ruiz Zafon) Publisher : 南海出版公司 Tags : 卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰, 西班牙, 小说, 悬疑, 外国文学, 天使游戏, 西班牙文学, 萨丰 Rating : 2 Published : 2010-03-15T21:30:44.823000+00:00 Identifiers : douban:4213990, isbn:9787544246484 Comments : 整个世间都背弃你、蔑视你，唯有魔鬼对你展露笑颜，你选择言听计从，还是誓死与之周旋到底？古老阴暗的巴塞罗那，雨无休无止。穷困潦倒的落魄作家马丁，在廉价的冒险小说中无谓地燃烧生命。一日，他应神秘出版商柯莱利之邀造访“梦幻城 ”，竟见到了自己笔下的主角！为了钟情的女子，马丁矢志创作一部真正属于自己的小说，同时也为恩人维达尔代写书稿，但苦心写出的作品恶评如潮，恩人“新作”却大红大紫。不久，他钟情之人竟嫁予维达尔，他也疾病缠身时日无多…… 此时，柯莱利再度现身承诺：若能创作一个令人心醉神移的伟大故事，便可助他完成所有梦想。一封封有天使印记的信笺，一次次与神秘访客的会晤，马丁身不由己地陷入一场难以自拔的谜局，在迷离恍惚之中越陷越深…… 当你惊觉灵魂已被捕猎，可还有勇气继续未完的章节？ --- Title : La Sombra Del Viento Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher : Planeta Tags : 西班牙, 西班牙语文学, 悬疑, 小说, Carlos_Ruiz_Zafon, 适合改编电影, 西班牙语, 2006 Rating : 2.2 Published : 2006-06-30T21:30:48.042000+00:00 Identifiers : douban:1769444, isbn:9780974872407 Comments : 一段因追索书中潜藏的灵魂而展开的传奇旅程。在巴塞隆纳的光与影中，人性、爱欲、仇恨重重交迭，飘荡如风中的幻影。十岁少年在＂遗忘书之墓＂找到一本小说《La Sombra del Viento》，读后开始寻找作者的作品，却发现小说中虚构的恶魔竟现身巴塞隆纳街头。一场单纯的文学寻根之旅，意外开啟了通往巴塞隆纳黑暗过去的大门。当神祕作者的轮廓一点一滴浮现，少年的人生逐渐和他产生重迭，并将身边的人全都卷入死亡与杀戮的阴影…… --- Title : Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher : ORION PAPERBACKS Tags : 英文小说, 英文原版, 美国, 外国文学, 2004 Rating : Published : 2004-10-28T21:30:51.385000+00:00 Identifiers : douban:3836447, isbn:9780297848974 --- Title : 天使遊戲 Author(s) : 卡洛斯．魯依斯．薩豐 (carlos Ruiz Zafon) Publisher : 圓神 Tags : 西班牙, 小说, 卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰, 外国文学, 萨丰, 西班牙文学, 科幻奇幻悬疑, 台版 Rating : 2.1 Identifiers : douban:3920797, isbn:9789861332901 Comments : ★孤單熬了7年，《風之影》作者薩豐終於交出這張全球翹首等待的成績單！ ★為什麼全球出版社爭相付出高價，只為獲得薩豐腦海裡的一個故事？ ★西班牙首刷100萬本，破出版史紀錄，全球銷量衝向500萬本！ ★德英美等國以天價勇奪這顆「出版界的鑽石」，全球預付金已登千萬美元高峰。 ★詹宏志、郝譽翔、李立亨、譚光磊、elish　各界名人絕讚推薦！當全世界都背棄、不看好你，只有惡魔對你展露笑顏，你選擇言聽計從？抑或誓死周旋到底？誘惑宛如天使，卻是披著純淨白衣的魔鬼。當鬼魅逐漸顯影時，這才驚覺，最險惡的魔鬼都住在自己心裡：虛榮、仇恨、妒忌、自卑......在這場遊戲中，敵手只有自己。──范湲 8歲那年，大衛．馬汀在酒醉父親的拳頭下，誓死守護狄更斯的《前程遠大》，因為在那遭受詛咒的童年時光裡，書本是唯一可依靠的心靈堡壘。 1917年，年僅17歲的馬汀意外接獲《工業之聲》副總編巴希里歐的緊急命令──即將付印的週末特刊因臨時出狀況，空缺幾頁內容待補，此時編輯部人員又都已下班，無可奈何之下，副總編給了馬汀一個創作機會，要求他在僅剩的六小時內寫個短篇小說以充版面。隔天馬汀所寫的小說一刊出後，竟大受讀者歡迎，使他一躍成為報社專欄作家之一，卻也因此招來報社同儕的嫉妒與冷落，只有一向看好他的忘年之交衛達始終默默給予支持和鼓勵。正當馬汀的小說廣受好評之際，卻收到一位來自法國巴黎出版商的來信，表示願意協助他完成種種創作及出書的夢想；接著又意外獲得一封造訪妓院「綺夢園」的邀請函，只是根據衛達所言，這家「綺夢園」早已歇業多年，也無聽說重新開業的消息；更詭異的是，當馬汀前往赴約時，接待他的美麗女子竟與自己小說中的女主角同名，也叫珂蘿依......一夜逼真如實的經歷，之後卻又人去樓空？！爾後，一封封具有天使印記的信箋，一次次與署名A.C.的神秘訪客會晤，竟鬼使神差地引誘著馬汀，身不由主陷入一場越探索越迷離、無法自拔的生命歷程，馬汀也逐漸發現與自己接觸的神秘人士，其身分與背後目的遠比想像中詭譎難測...... 美麗誘人的天使封印，就此揭開一場天人交戰的神秘交易。當你驚覺自己的靈魂已被獵捕、生命正與過往歷史詭異交疊時，可有勇氣繼續未完成的章節？ Failed to parse pubdate u'2009\u5e7408\u670825\u65e5' Failed to parse rating Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\douban.py ", line 134, in to_metadata ValueError: could not convert string to float: Failed to parse rating Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\douban.py ", line 134, in to_metadata ValueError: could not convert string to float: Failed to parse rating Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\douban.py ", line 134, in to_metadata ValueError: could not convert string to float: Failed to parse rating Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\douban.py ", line 134, in to_metadata ValueError: could not convert string to float: ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 2) **************************** Found 3 results Downloading from Amazon.com took 8.54600000381 --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia Graves Publisher : Penguin Books Languages : eng Rating : 2.3 Published : 2005-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 Identifiers : isbn:9780143034902, amazon_de:0143034901 Comments : <p><em>"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." --<strong><em></em>The New York Times Book Review</strong></em> </p> <p><strong>A <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller</strong> </p> <p>Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love. </p> <p>“ Anyone who enjoys novels that are <strong>scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling</strong> should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up <em>The Shadow of the Wind. </em>Really, you should.” --<strong>Michael Dirda, The Washington Post</strong> </p> <p>"<strong>Wonderous... masterful... <strong><em>The Shadow of the Wind</em> is ultimately </strong>a love letter to literature</strong>, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero." --<strong><em>Entertainment Weekly </em>(Editor's Choice)</strong> </p> <p><strong>"One gorgeous read." --Stephen King</strong></p> <p></p> --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1 Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher : W&N Languages : eng Rating : 2.3 Published : 2005-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 Identifiers : isbn:9780753820254, amazon_de:0753820250 Comments : <p><strong>A stunning literary thriller in the tradition of Umberto Eco. The discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an elusive author who may or may not still be alive...</strong></p> <p>Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax.</p> <p>But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from La Sombra del Viento, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead.</p> <p></p> --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind. (Phoenix) Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafón Publisher : Phoenix Languages : eng Rating : 2.3 Published : 2005-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 Identifiers : isbn:9780752859545, amazon_de:0752859544 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36 Server: auto Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Shad...Awww.amazon.de Getting details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=de Getting details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=de Getting details from: https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=de ************************************************ ************************** ************************** OZON.ru (1, 1, 0) ************************** Found 1 results Downloading from OZON.ru took 5.67599987984 --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher : Phoenix Languages : ru Published : 2005-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 Identifiers : ozon:3835987, isbn:9780753820254 Comments : Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the "cemetery of lost books", a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out "La Sombra del Viento" by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from La Sombra del Viento, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. search url: https://www.ozon.ru/?context=search&...los+Ruiz+Zafon cover: -----> //ozon-st.cdn.ngenix.net/multimedia/c300/1001154283.jpg cover: -----> //ozon-st.cdn.ngenix.net/multimedia/c300/1005440702.jpg ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Google (1, 0, 0) ************************** Found 1 results Downloading from Google took 3.32899999619 --- Title : The Shadow of the Wind Author(s) : Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher : Hachette UK Tags : Fiction, Historical, General, Literary Languages : eng Published : 2009-04-16T21:30:39.241000+00:00 Identifiers : isbn:9780297857136, google:z9Fe2htTgdoC Comments : A stunning literary thriller in the tradition of Umberto Eco. The discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an elusive author who may or may not still be alive...Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax.But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from La Sombra del Viento, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...max-results=20 ********************************************** ************************** ************************** Edelweiss (2, 0, 1) ************************** Found 0 results Downloading from Edelweiss took 0.733000040054 Currently Edelweiss returns random books for search queries ********************************************** **************************** The identify phase took 17.71 seconds The longest time (17.609000) was taken by: Douban Books Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service We have 5 merged results, merging took: 1.78 seconds Maybe the server had a problem.

07-11-2018, 01:58 PM	#6
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 35,507 Karma: 145557716 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	It looks almost as if you have two instances of calibre installed or the installation of 3.27.1 is being blocked. When you look in Apps and Features, does it show only one instance of calibre installed? You can also try opening a command prompt and typing "where calibredb.exe" without the quotes and hit enter. This should return "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibredb.exe" for the normal install. This does assume that the path to the calibre executables is in the system path variable. Code: C:\Users\David>where calibredb.exe C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibredb.exe C:\Users\David>where calibre.exe C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe C:\Users\David>where where.exe C:\Windows\System32\where.exe If only one instance of calibre shows as installed, you may want to uninstall calibre which should not affect your library/plugins/etc. and then re-installing. Last edited by DNSB; 07-11-2018 at 02:00 PM. Reason: fat fingers cause typos...

07-11-2018, 06:03 PM	#10
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	More testing. Tried to download (or re-download) metadata for some books that have been in my database for a while. Results were inconclusive: it worked for some, did not for others. Then I had to instal the latest Windows Updates (nothing special, just today's updates). Continued testing metadata download: miracle! Now it works for most those I tried and if not, repeating the attempt with only author's last name and one word of the title produced desired result! How did that happen??? Last edited by Maria Loranger; 07-11-2018 at 06:05 PM.

07-14-2018, 06:33 PM	#15
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	Continuing saga I went through the whole procedure of removing Calibre and cleaning. - I removed existing Calibre (through Programs and Features) - I ran CCleaner - I cleaned the Registry (with CCleaner) - I restarted my laptop - I downloaded Calibre again (for Windows 10, 64 bit) When I attempted to install Calibre again and I obtained the message : "The installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\calibre 64bit - E-book Management\calibre 64bit - E-book Management.lnk. " I have never seen this message before aand I don't know what it means, so I stopped the installation. - I manually removed all traces of Calbre (Registry, folders) - I ran a quick anti-virus scan I downloaded Calibre again rom the same page (https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64), attempted to install it and got the same error message ("The installer has insufficient privileges ...). Cancelled the installation. Downloaded Calibre again, but this time from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows (so, I presume, it's 32 but?). This version installed and loaded the Calibre Library without any problems. I would appreciate any comments. Thank you, ML

07-11-2018, 01:33 PM	#4
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	Thank you for your reply. 1) Indeed, I appear to be running version 2.31. PS C:\Users\Maria> calibredb --version Qt: Untested Windows version 10.0 detected! calibredb.exe (calibre 2.31 [64bit]) Also, in the Calibre window I am told "Update found: 3.27.1" This leaves me confused, since I ran calibre-64bit-3.27.1.msi without any problems and when I try to run it again I get the options to Change - Repair - Remove, so the 3.27.1 seems to be installed. I am lost... 2) When it comes to the metadata sources: - I am in Canada, but I do not have a choice of Amazon for Canada. I used the default (US) and it used to work - now it does not. I tried Germany and France - failure. - I also tried Google by itself and Overdrive by itself - failure in both cases. the ISBN has a red "X" next to it. - I will try to see about using a plugin and report back Of course, the most frustrating thing is that it used to work and now it does'n, although I have changed nothing, just applied updates when told to I am very grateful for any help you may continue to offer.

07-11-2018, 01:52 PM	#5
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	Installed Amazon Multiple Countries plugin - still failure.

07-11-2018, 02:54 PM	#7
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	If I do, I can't find any trace of it. Not in Apps and Features, nor through cmd. :\Users\Maria>where calibre.exe :\Program files\Calibre2\calibre.exe

07-11-2018, 05:06 PM	#8
Divingduck Wizard Posts: 1,161 Karma: 1404241 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Germany Device: Sony PRS-650	You maybe need admin rights. Start cmd with admin rights, type "set" or "path" and hit enter in the cmd window. You will get a report about your environment variables. Take a look to the "Path=" section. There should be an entry like C:\Program Files\Calibre2\ or C:\Program Files (86)\Calibre2\ for calibre if you have a local installation. If not, you probably run a portable version with a linked program icon. You can right-click this link and look for its properties.

07-11-2018, 05:45 PM	#9
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	Running cmd.exe with Administrator rights, I got the path C:\Program Files\Calibre2 - pls see below: C:\WINDOWS\system32>path PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\ System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShel l\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Acer\abFiles\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WI NDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32 \WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files

07-11-2018, 07:03 PM	#12
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	No, never get even got around to it!

07-14-2018, 11:02 AM	#14
Maria Loranger Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite + Kobo Libra 2	Thank you so much for all your help! Yes, I shall reinstall Calibre, after uninstalling it and cleaning everything, including the registry. In the meantime, this is the result of the "where" command: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.165] (c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>where /F /T calibre. 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-complete.exe" 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-customize.exe" 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-debug.exe" 32256 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-eject.exe" 43008 19-Jun-15 8:52:12 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-launcher.dll" 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-parallel.exe" 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-server.exe" 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-smtp.exe" 172032 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe" 24576 19-Jun-15 8:55:28 AM "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibredb.exe" C:\WINDOWS\system32>

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