As of yesterday, the Amazon metadata was working fine with version 1.3.0. I got several new books and it found them with no problems.
But today, with versions 1.3.0 and the newly installed 1.4.0, it finds metadata only if it is available for some site besides Amazon. The data below is from a book with I downloaded the data from fine yesterday...
calibre, version 1.4.0
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'Marsh, Richard', u'Bradley, Mary Lou'], u'identifiers': {u'amazon': u'B00BWSUM20', u'mobi-asin': u'B00BWSUM20'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'How to Buy the Perfect Guitar'}
Using plugins: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, FictionDB, Beam Ebooks, Google, Amazon.com, ISBNDB, Overdrive
The log from individual plugins is below
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Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')]
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 2.3149998188
Failed to make details query: '/How-Buy-Perfect-Guitar-ebook/dp/B00BWSUM20/ref=sr_1_1/179-0941283-3909834?ie=UTF8&qid=1379698980&sr=8-1&keywords=B00BWSUM20'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\amazon.py ", line 226, in get_details
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.5-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 199, in open_novisit
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.5-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 216, in _mech_open
BrowserStateError: can't fetch relative reference: not viewing any document
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The identify phase took 2.45 seconds
The longest time (2.315000) 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
Thanks.