Thread: Same ID but different books
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Old 08-02-2018, 01:18 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Beemer3 View Post
I have been running the Duplicate book app in each of its options. Just when I thought that I had deleted all unwanted duplicate I ran the option comparing isbn id. That produced many books that head the same isbn number but had different titles.

Can someone explain how that could occur?
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When you 'download Metadata", those TRY to match if there is not already an ISBN. ISBN code really refers to an edition, not a title. My 1970 edition will have a different ISBN than the 2010 edition (no just another printing run).

Blindly accepting the results, can grab the 'best guess', with that guess being wrong. I use the ctrl-D metadata download and REVIEW the results and cherry pick each line.
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