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shentar · 09-09-2013, 06:03 AM

I was attempting to get original date of publication into the Published Date field so I ticked the box in "Configured Download" to get this from worldcat.org.

Unfortunately this gave some very strange results. While many of the dates look correct I am pretty sure no star wars books were published in 1920, and absolutely certain nothing associated with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series was around in September 1100.

For a more practical example, "Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World" is reported as published Jan 2005. Worldcat has this as 1990. I'm not sure whether this is a bug in calibre or bad data reporting from worldcat, or indeed if I need to add additional configuration options (should there be a worldcat.org entry in my metadata sources?).

Any suggestions?

09-09-2013, 06:03 AM	#1
shentar Member Posts: 22 Karma: 510 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: kindle	Odd results in Published Date I was attempting to get original date of publication into the Published Date field so I ticked the box in "Configured Download" to get this from worldcat.org. Unfortunately this gave some very strange results. While many of the dates look correct I am pretty sure no star wars books were published in 1920, and absolutely certain nothing associated with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series was around in September 1100. For a more practical example, "Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World" is reported as published Jan 2005. Worldcat has this as 1990. I'm not sure whether this is a bug in calibre or bad data reporting from worldcat, or indeed if I need to add additional configuration options (should there be a worldcat.org entry in my metadata sources?). Any suggestions?