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Old 09-07-2017, 06:22 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by tarisea View Post
I'm a little rusty and setting up my library that I didn't move properly from one computer to another.

I need to add metadata to a pile of books. But lets say I'm doing this one book at a time. For some reason a lot of my books that I added from Kindle, its only reading the mobi-asin number and putting it in the Title field. So I move it to IDs and hit "Download metadata" but since it is only searching for Title and Author it doesn't find anything. How do I get it to search IDs?

Thank you for your help
Add has 2 modes, read from Metadat OR read the file name.
For commercial books, I would use the from Metadata, that should populate title,Author and ID (ASIN)

If you used from file name already
Open the Metadata editor, Select a format on the right, Click the book with Pencil icon near it.
That should read the internal metadata for the selected format.
Click Next.
Repeat
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