Ok, I got the newest-newest version just now, and now I actually get an error message. I did read the error but I don't think that "no matches found" should be correct. I've search tons of books, even down to extremely simple and popular titles and I still get 0 results every time. Before this problem started, I got great results on everything.
calibre, version 0.9.29
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click Show Details.
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'authors': [u'Eben Alexander, M. D.'], u'identifiers': {u'amazon': u'1451695195', u'google': u'-1lTvZ87asMC', u'isbn': u'9781451695199', u'barnesnoble': u'w/proof-of-heaven-eben-alexander-iii/1112409984', u'goodreads': u'15851746'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u"Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife"}
Using plugins: Google, Amazon.com
The log from individual plugins is below
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Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 120.11384511
Failed to make identify query: u'http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=isbn%3A9781451695199&max-results=20&min-viewability=none&start-index=1'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google.py", line 303, in identify
File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 199, in open_novisit
File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1142, in http_open
File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
URLError: <urlopen error timed out>
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****************************** Amazon.com ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 120.125457048
Amazon timed out. Try again later.
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The identify phase took 120.19 seconds
The longest time (120.125457) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates from the worldcat.org service
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds