[davidfor]

Originally Posted by petzi

Whenever I click into the button "Search Goodreads.com" from the window "Goodreads.com matches for ISBN" I got an error message.

Spoiler:

calibre, version 2.63.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:QUrl.fromEncoded(): argument 1 has unexpected type 'unicode'

calibre 2.63 embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '14.5.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 14.5.0: Thu Jun 16 19:58:21 PDT 2016; root:xnu-2782.50.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64')
Python 2.7.11
OSX: ('10.10.5', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 4, 3) && Library Codes (1, 0, 27) && Read MP3 AudioBook metadata (1, 0, 79) && Annotations (1, 4, 7) && Kindle Collections (1, 7, 17) && Favourites Menu (1, 0, 4) && Search The Internet (1, 7, 6) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && Goodreads (1, 1, 11) && Quick Preferences (1, 4, 1) && Goodreads Sync (1, 9, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 6, 2) && Job Spy (1, 0, 53) && BOL_DE (0, 7, 2) && Import List (1, 1, 5) && Zotero Metadata Importer (1, 0, 33) && Amazon.com terciary source (1, 0, 0) && Consolidate All Library Metadata (2, 0, 19) && Clipboard Search (1, 3, 1) && EpubMerge (2, 0, 12) && Reading List (1, 6, 6) && Amazon.com secondary source (1, 0, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.goodreads_sync.dialogs", line 1046, in search_on_goodreads
TypeError: QUrl.fromEncoded(): argument 1 has unexpected type 'unicode'

Is this an error - maybe related to German Umlaute? (But the error message comes with English books as well) or maybe I did something wrong?

Could you try the beta in this post? I remember fixing something like this and my notes suggests this beta should have the fix in it.