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Old 07-22-2013, 08:40 AM   #1
BruticusBob
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Cool Calibre Metadata From Amazon Missing. What Am I Missing?

Greetings All!

Advance apologies if this has been asked, but I've been searching for hours without a resolve and it's driving me to type.

Problem A:

After downloading a books meta from (presumably from the enabled Amazon, Google and ISBN plugins) the net and saving it to the 'book' I find that there is nothing displayed in the ISBN column in library view. When I ave a look at the meta, instead of an ISBN number it has an Amazon or Google number instead.

That's OK as I know not every book has an ISBN, but why is the other number not displayed? Calibre understands the given number as belonging to one of the two companies. So what gives.

I've tried adding additional custom columns (named: amazon and google) to no avail.

Problem B:

And because I know that this will be the next tech question I ask, I'll ask it now. So after the metadata is corrected, how would I go about telling Calibre to choose one (but choose wisely) to display and only one? In code, this is as easy as pie (maybe a nice little "if else" or "select case" program - you get the idea). But of course I'm a newbie to Calibre and I'm pretty sure I'm just missing something obvious (after all, this things a freakin' powerhouse of goodies).

Any help is appreciated greatly.

Bruticus
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