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Old 12-28-2016, 11:41 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by audeojude View Post
The last few days I have been having really spoty results downloading metadata from amazon. One out of 10 books will actually download. These are books that I just downloaded from my amazon account via computer and then added to calibre.
I'm getting this, too. If I select several books and try to grab their metadata all at once, I might get half of them successfully, and often those are from non-Amazon sources like Google. On the other hand, if I do 'em one by one, the success rate shoots up to 100% or close to it.

To be clear, these are all books I bought on Amazon US as Kindle-format ebooks, and I've used the "convert mobi-asin to amazon identifier" trick. Amazon should be giving metadata on all of them, but something about the bulk download attempt isn't working.
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