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kiwidude · 03-01-2011, 04:46 AM

Maybe Kovid has changed things in the last few weeks but one of the limitations I found for my Goodreads covers download is that you can *only* download covers for books with an ISBN. It is hard-baked into a number of places in the Calibre code that if the book has no ISBN then you are out of luck. I reported this as a ticket here and Kovid said it would be addressed as part of the new API.

03-01-2011, 04:46 AM	#3
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,731 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Maybe Kovid has changed things in the last few weeks but one of the limitations I found for my Goodreads covers download is that you can only download covers for books with an ISBN. It is hard-baked into a number of places in the Calibre code that if the book has no ISBN then you are out of luck. I reported this as a ticket here and Kovid said it would be addressed as part of the new API.