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Originally Posted by tarisea
Calibre will automatically grab the ISBN. Every book in Calibre has an ISBN.
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Yes and no. Calibre may try to grab an ISBN for every book, but I believe calibre only tries to grab a ISBN if one isn't already provided. That is why I suggested using the Extract ISBN plugin first.
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Originally Posted by tarisea
Second, I am really curious, why do you use Paperback ISBNs?
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I don't use any specific ISBN. I could care less what the identifying number is for my library. If I had a library of technical books I might require proper identifiers and edition info. If I really need to do deeper research into a book any ISBN will give me a start and get me in the ballpark.
As a reader of books I want accurate Title, Author, Series and tags for my books. Plus I want a nice description of the book. This is why my library emphasizes identifiers from GoodReads. Going to GoodReads from a given identifier is going to give me, as a reader, the community perspective on any novel. Beyond GoodReads, identifiers aren't important to me.
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Originally Posted by tarisea
I guess the point of my rant was the lack of focus on edition. Calibre doesn't recognize it or catalog it all
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This is true, calibre was initially created for the reader not the librarian or collector. But the flexibility has been added that allows anyone to use whatever identifiers you like. As Sabardeyn suggests the process is manual but doable.
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Originally Posted by tarisea
Whether we are talking about Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Goodreads, Calibre doesn't acknowledge whether it's identifiers are for paperback, hardcover or ebook. For consistency this is important. But again maybe I am overthinking things. What do you think?
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From my point of view, as a reader, this level of detail isn't important. The use of ISBNs is a means of being able to automate grabbing decent metadata about the books we read.
You aren't the first to be frustrated by the lack of edition tracking. However, if I recall correctly Kovid has no plans to add this ability.
Good Reading.