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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
The last thing I need is another column to eat up screen real estate, especially when it shouldn't be necessary. Besides, all I've been having to do to get the title, author, comments, etc. fields populated is put in the ISBN. Not having a place to do that anymore is going to be a royal hurt in the donkey. The vast majority of my ebooks are scanned to image only PDFs from paperbooks so there is no way calibre can extract any info from the book itself. Before, all I had to do was ID the newly scanned book by ISBN, then, when entering it into calibre, just copy and paste it into the ISBN box and let calibre do its thing. Now, I'll have to manually enter all fields so they will match the individual book (many, if not most, paperbooks have many different printings). For me, losing the ISBN box is a huge step backwards.
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Just to be clear...
A new column is not necessary, and you have not lost the ability to do what you wish. Also, for your workflow, there is no extra typing.
Before 0.8, there was a box in edit metadata (single) that could contain an ISBN, in which you could paste an ISBN. In 0.8, there is a box in edit metadata (single) that can contain an ISBN and several other kinds of IDs, in which you can paste an ISBN (with one button click).
If you need to hand-type the ISBN into the box, as is the case with the OP, then there is a bit more to do. You must type the 5 letters isbn: before typing the ISBN itself. I can see how this might be annoying if manually entering ISBNs is a frequent part of a person's workflow.