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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Now to make this more useful to everybody I need a list of the website links people would want. Obviously I already have FantasticFiction, Google, Amazon and Wikipedia. Elsewhere on this thread is ISBN, B&N & GoodReads.
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LibraryThing is what Calibre itself uses to find Series (and tags/ratings) and given that many books are in several different series arrangement and Calibre just picks one (no idea HOW it select which one) it's not that uncommon to want to go there to get the real scope on how different books relate to each other in series and fix it manually. Their "author search" is useless but their new generic search is good for almost anything. Proposed rules:
('LibraryThing for Book', 'stip_librarything.bmp', 'http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search={title}+{author}', 'utf-8', _('Alt+L')),
('LibraryThing for Title', 'stip_librarything.bmp', 'http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search={title}', 'utf-8', None),
('LibraryThing for Author', 'stip_librarything.bmp', 'http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search={author}', 'utf-8', None),
('LibraryThing for ISBN', 'stip_librarything.bmp', 'http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search={isbn}', 'utf-8', None),
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a very good source for information on anything related to Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has less data than LT and only covers a subset of books but the data quality is often better.
('isfdb for Book', 'stip_isfdb.ico', 'http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/edit/tp_search.cgi?TERM_1={title}&USE_1=title&OPERATOR_ 1=AND&TERM_2={author}&USE_2=author&OPERATOR_2=AND' , 'latin-1', None),
('isfdb for Title', 'stip_isfdb.ico', 'http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?type=Fiction+Titles&arg={title}', 'latin-1', None),
('isfdb for Author', 'stip_isfdb.ico', 'http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?type=Name&arg={author}', 'latin-1', None),
I would also suggest you add
Amazon.co.uk and possibly other localized Amazon stores as options. Amazon.co.uk has different (and sometimes better) covers than Amazon.com and the exact same search path (except replace .com with .co.uk) works fine.
I know all these works in the current plugin, they're frequently used here especially Alt-L (LibraryThing title+author lookup).
