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Originally Posted by malfi
It's not the very same problem, but would it be possible to have a button to let calibre check the first few pages of a newly added ebook for an isbn and download the metadata by isbn for that ebook automagically?
My workflow usually looks like this: open ebook, go to page 3, copy isbn, edit meta-data, paste isbn, click get meta-data... kind of slow and annoying...
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You would think that this is one of the most basic features that calibre could have. I was totally shocked that calibre doesn't do this. I spent a few days trying to find some way calibre did, because I really couldn't believe it didn't have such a feature and I knew I was just missing it...I was wrong about how wrong I was.
Alas, you are right. It doesn't, and you must resort to the painfully time consuming manual process you described, or use scripts written by someone else.
What you can do is go here:
http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/
and look at the second post. Follow the dirs. also run a search for "mekk" here on these forums. Also, ask the calibre creator to add this basic functionality in, if possi