Thread: Getting Metadata from Amazon
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Old 12-23-2016, 12:33 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by LJJohnson View Post
However, the metadata for IDs that is returned (i.e., mobi-asin:B01M33A032) has a very poor record of finding the correct book from Amazon when I hit [Download Metadata] ==> considerably less than 50%. It will bring back the wrong book, no books, or the book in dead-tree version, which normally has little metadata.
The "Overdrive Link" plugin is pretty much 100% accurate at grabbing the ASIN of an eBook from Amazon, and it will put it in any identifier you want, with the default being "amazon:".
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