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Old 12-24-2010, 11:35 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by shrik View Post
I downloaded The Count of Monte Cristo from Manybooks as a MOBI, and I'm Ctrl+D'ing away to glory in Calibre, but it fails with this:

Failed to download metadata for the following:
The Count of Monte Cristo
No matches found for this book



What's wrong?? I think one of the sites Calibre looks at is LibraryThing, and I searched there pasting the filename of the e-book that I had, and it gladly found the book for me..
Author field is different (and not blank/Unknown)

a ISBN is specified = Hard match (vs Softer match with no ISBN) = There is no data for that ISBN
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