[meme]

I noticed while adding an empty book by ISBN (calibre 0.8.19 on Ubuntu 11.04) that the metadata settings appear to be getting applied from the Preferences for Metadata download instead of the ISBN configuration dialog. Are there supposed to be two places to set the metadata download settings, and if so, shouldn't the values set for adding an ISBN book take precedence?

Select Preferences
Select Metadata download
Uncheck Authors (leave some other items checked)
Save
Select Add Books -> Add from ISBN
Enter an ISBN number, then OK
Select Configure download
Check Authors
Apply
Select Download Both
Select OK to update metadata when prompted

Notice that the Authors field does not get populated, but title, cover, etc. do (assuming you have these checked).

If you use Preferences -> Metadata download and check Authors and do the add book by isbn again, the Author data will show up.


Now that I know what's happening its not an issue, but it is a bit confusing when the dialog for configuring what to download appears to be ignored in favour of the general download settings.