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kiwidude · 04-12-2011, 03:05 AM

@bookmonster - that raises some interesting points. Firstly, storing ASIN as a separate identifier is something that is almost enabled in Calibre. I say almost because you can store it, you just don't have a GUI to edit it/give it a value other than from a plugin currently (it will happen in Calibre 0.8 in the coming months).

Once that is available, I will be changing the goodreads metadata plugin so that it can scrape ASIN if it is available. I guess the question is if a book has both an ASIN and an ISBN, should the Goodreads sync plugin always try to use the ASIN rather than the ISBN? (I'm trying to avoid you having to manually manipulate the ISBN field).

The other idea this gave me is for the Extract ISBN plugin - it should really have the ability to scrape ASIN identifiers from a book format as well...

04-12-2011, 03:05 AM	#123
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,733 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	@bookmonster - that raises some interesting points. Firstly, storing ASIN as a separate identifier is something that is almost enabled in Calibre. I say almost because you can store it, you just don't have a GUI to edit it/give it a value other than from a plugin currently (it will happen in Calibre 0.8 in the coming months). Once that is available, I will be changing the goodreads metadata plugin so that it can scrape ASIN if it is available. I guess the question is if a book has both an ASIN and an ISBN, should the Goodreads sync plugin always try to use the ASIN rather than the ISBN? (I'm trying to avoid you having to manually manipulate the ISBN field). The other idea this gave me is for the Extract ISBN plugin - it should really have the ability to scrape ASIN identifiers from a book format as well...