Thread: Keeping ISBN10 when downloading metadata
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Old 11-05-2018, 08:41 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Many of the books are older ones, with only the ISBN10s. I input them in batches of 5-10 books at a time, let Calibre automatically download the metadata and covers, and correct any information that needs doing so.

I suppose I could find a way to bulk-copy the ISBN10 before doing the metadata download.
So you are saying that the metadata download is finding a NEWER version and stomping yours?
ISBN 13: is just an ISBN-10 configured for UPC scanning
978<ISBN> no check digit 0-9,X
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