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Old 11-01-2011, 05:37 AM   #8
DoctorOhh
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Sometimes you need to click the download metadata button a second time to get all the ids you want populated for the same "book" from the other sites, because after the first download it now will have an ISBN set that the other sites can match against.
I do this often myself in order to get the full info from the Goodreads plugin.

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Bulk metadata downloading "can" work, but it is preferable if it has an ISBN to work with.
Good advice you gave on using the extract ISBN plugin first before any bulk metadata download.

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As for your "defaults" comment - Overdrive is woefully slow, which is why it is not a default. I don't personally use Google.
Concur.
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