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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
Maverynthia,
Theducks simply offered an alternate way to try and find cover images. You will find that their are generally a couple of ways in calibre to complete any task. "Search the Internet" is the name of a plugin, while Google Images is one of the optional searches the plugin can perform.
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I didn't know that was the name of a plugin. (Which is why I got confused about missing monitors and stuff). I was using the built-in Google Images one. I'll look into that plugin in the meantime.
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Anyway, since you're still encountering the problem, why not try a smallish bunch of books and if you get an error, try again for each book individually? You can find which books need a cover by performing a cover:false search, then highlight some books and perform your standard metadata download. If any of the books fail, then go through those books one by one, to find the problem book (one of those without a cover) by repeating the search individually.
(Just so you know, you might find that some of those dozen books are missing. If some of the book cover's are found, those books can be removed by calibre because the search criteria no longer applies. That is, covers were found for those books so cover:false no longer applies.)
Once you've found one of the problem books, let us know the name of it and where you got the ebook file from (if you remember).
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I'll go do that. I tired it before on a group of 4 books, yet on an individual search they behaved themselves, only to redo them on a multiple search and have them go 'nope'. I'll keep mucking with it to try and narrow it down to one or a couple books.
(Just frustrating when my group of Amazon MOBIs breeze through fine, yet these EPUBs are all 'nope, covers are for losers!')
I should also state that my
Amazon Free is a different library than my
Main Library. They are both under /My Documents however.
OK how exactly do I do the cover:false search? (Where am I putting that? and does it respect the
R-click > Download metadata and covers?)
Where are the books from? Kobo. I took them from my Kobo directory, shoved them into Calibre then converted them from EPUB into EPUB (some of the books claim to also have been on Smashwords at some point in their life but all were from Kobo). There were no errors with conversion.
EDIT: I narrowed it down to "The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas" it's the Kobo version that has been reconverted into EPUB by Calibre. I tried renaming a DIFFERENT book to the title and author and left the rest blank and it still hangs. I even tried editing the Author and still nothing.
(There are others that cause it to hang, but this is ONE of them)