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Originally Posted by Joanna
Has the screenshot been taken from the "Edit Metadata" dialog? (I use another layout of that window.)
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Yes - the all-in-one layout.
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Originally Posted by Joanna
I know what the Language Metadata item for the books is  . If the plugin was to choose the Amazon store depending on that, this would hamper my normal workflow. Usually, I hit "Extract ISBN", open "Edit metadata", check if the title of the book is the right one and try to download metadata straight away. Having downloaded the data, I check/modify the rest, including the language, if need be. |
Firstly most of my books are not commercial books, they're academic, government papers so I don't get my metadata from the commercial book stores. That said I can normally determine a 'books' language based on the title.
But if you have an ISBN then you have the country of publication, and in many instances a books language will be the main language of that country ==>> see
List of ISBN identifier groups.
Perhaps an option could be added to Extract ISBN Plug in to fill in the books language based on the country 'code' of the ISBN. Then it could be—
But, I think this would be better, the Amazon Metadata download function could choose the Amazon store based on the ISBN country prefix - so a 2 would lookup Amazon France, a 3 would lookup Amazon Germany, a 981 would lookup Amazon Singapore, if there is such a thing, Singapore publishes in English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil.
Maybe a combination - if a book has an ISBN use its country prefix to determine which Amazon site, otherwise if a book has a Language use it to determine which Amazon site, otherwise use the US Amazon site.
Its never going to 100% accurate - I have a first-edition commercial book from an Ivy League university press that has the wrong ISBN! It was corrected in subsequent editions.
BR