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Originally Posted by sweth
Would it be possible to tweak the plugin to allow searching of the Gutenberg database via the ID that Gutenberg uses? I sometimes have entries for books I want to get from Gutenberg where I just create an empty record w/ the Gutenberg URI as an identifier, but it appears that if I don't also manually fill in the author/title, the Overdrive plugin won't find those records.
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Your question has me baffled! If you already know the PG ID for a book then you know that book is available at PG so there is no need to search for it. If you have the URI of the book already in your database then you have a direct link to the book so you don't need the plugin for that either. Having the book linked via the plugin would just give you a slightly different way of following the link that you already have.
If you still want to pursue this, then you could look into ways of copying data from one identifier to another in calibre. For each PG URI there is an equivalent odid identifier that expresses the same link for the plugin. For example,
The Aliens by Murray Leinster is PG #24104. The URI identifier is
uri:http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24104 and The equivalent link for the plugin would be the identifier
odid:24104@pg/
Let me know if I have misunderstood your request.