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So, there's good news and bad news. For some titles, this plugin fully automates the metadata process: select all the issues in a series, Ctrl-D, Enter, and if the info looks right, let it fill all the fields. For series where Comic Vine has multiple conflicting entries, however, sometimes you get the wrong metadata and sometimes you just get a "failed" dialogue. It's hard to say at this early date how often the plugin will succeed vs. fail, but given how many titles-per-character and volumes-per-title comics tend to spawn, I could see it being a big problem. ComicRack's Comic Vine Scraper gets around it by showing you all the search results and letting you pick the right one.
When the plugin fails, the only recourse I've found is to search out the series on Comic Vine in a browser and copy each issue's ID (the six digit number following "4000-" in the URL) individually to the ID field in Calibre (format "comicvine:xxxxxx"), at which point a metadata download will turn up the right results.
At first glance, I fear Calibre is missing some basic infrastructure to let you address these problems: displaying multiple metadata search results for one, and making use of a numerical series ID for another. Hopefully I'm wrong on one or both counts. Just having a series ID field in Calibre's metadata would make a much more tolerable workaround than going book-by-book.
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