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Inukami · 07-11-2017, 12:44 AM

@kovidgoyal: That is what I thought. Thank you for the confirmation again.

@davidfor: Thanks for your suggestion. It looks like the Import List Plugin may resolve the issue, however there are some possible problems as well.

CSV File: Amazon US does have a feature called "Order History Report" where you can export the data. Unfortunately I use Amazon Australia and Japan and they don't have this feature. If I use this link HERE or other methods, I can extract the data, but the price information doesn't seem to be included. iBooks also doesn't have a feature like this. I could maybe use Automator to automate and extract information from receipts but that could take a while and maybe not worth it. The majority of my books are in iBooks. If you can think of another easy way of getting this information, please let me know.
Import from Webpage: This could potentially solve my problem if it can extract the price information. Although the price that I bought compared to current price may be different, so this may not be possible. I may need to play around with this feature more. Please let me know if you can get it to work. I think the CSV method would be the easiest/best method.

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Inukami Zealot Posts: 145 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Australia Device: Mac Pro 2013 & Mini 2018, iPad Mini 4, iPhone 11, iBooks, K4Mac/PC	Using Import List Plugin to get price metadata @kovidgoyal: That is what I thought. Thank you for the confirmation again. @davidfor: Thanks for your suggestion. It looks like the Import List Plugin may resolve the issue, however there are some possible problems as well. CSV File: Amazon US does have a feature called "Order History Report" where you can export the data. Unfortunately I use Amazon Australia and Japan and they don't have this feature. If I use this link HERE or other methods, I can extract the data, but the price information doesn't seem to be included. iBooks also doesn't have a feature like this. I could maybe use Automator to automate and extract information from receipts but that could take a while and maybe not worth it. The majority of my books are in iBooks. If you can think of another easy way of getting this information, please let me know. Import from Webpage: This could potentially solve my problem if it can extract the price information. Although the price that I bought compared to current price may be different, so this may not be possible. I may need to play around with this feature more. Please let me know if you can get it to work. I think the CSV method would be the easiest/best method.