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Old 04-30-2011, 12:03 PM   #167
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
You can control whether titles are overwritten with the downloaded result or not. Given the architecture of the download system, decisions on whether to re-lookup after further sanitizing title/author metadata is upto individual metadata download plugins.
I think that you misread my post. I was referring _only_ to the download of covers, and I meant to trim the existing title (and in that case, only trim for the purpose of finding the correct cover in the event that the non-trimmed title reveals no covers).


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Originally Posted by kiwidude View Post
@dotanchoen - what I would also suggest is that you might find the "Extract ISBN" plugin handy in this situation (at least I did on my non fiction books in particular like programming manuals). Run that first to pull out the ISBN, then do a metadata download. That way whatever title/authors you had for the book don't matter as it will lookup on ISBN instead.
Thanks, I will try that.
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