Thread: Downloading metadata and count pages help
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Old 10-16-2018, 08:34 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Teeny View Post
Okay I have my TBR library that I want to sort by page. I'm downloading the metadata for the books and then I do the Estimate Page Counts but I get very few results and they are wrong too. Also sometimes I'm getting word count and not page count.

I have the Goodreads sync plugin, I have the Goodreads for downloading metadata plugin and I have the Count Pages plugin.

I'm using calibre 3.31 in a W7 laptop.

I've attached pictures for my customization of the plugins. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
As BR said, you are using the same column for all the statistics. I have no idea which will end up in the column.
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Also how and where can I customize to only download the goodreads ID and not ISBNs, ASINs or anything else
You screenshot of the Goodreads Sync plugin shows an option about setting the ISBN. It is set to always overwrite. Change that to the never modify value.

The Goodreads metadata source plugin will also get the ISBN. But, it shouldn't replace it. In fact, if the ISBN exists, then it will be used to search for the book. And if you choose the book found that way, the ISBN won't be updated. If there isn't an ISBN, or it doesn't match the book you want, the plugin will supply the ISBN back to calibre to decide what to do. And in this case, updating the ISBN sounds like the correct action.
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