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Old 03-21-2019, 01:46 PM   #476
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Originally Posted by kiwidude View Post
Hi theducks!

Goodreads Sync plugin has one (standalone) feature called "Link to Goodreads" - which both lists Goodreads search results for a book (if it hasn't yet got a goodreads id) as well as letting you switch editions. You can also drag/drop the Goodreads book url from a browser onto that dialog as a shortcut way of setting the goodreads:xxx Id for the book.

So if someone really wants to get some quality Goodreads metadata for your book, the best way after adding a book to Calibre is to first start with the "Link to Goodreads" option (I bind it to a keyboard shortcut). Select the exact edition you want (you can open the links in your browser with double clicks from that dialog to check the data an edition has). If you then do a metadata download you are now guaranteed an exact match based on the book id, rather than the lottery of search results from a title/author search. Long winded but will avoid accidentally getting completely the wrong book metadata - I dread to think how many Calibre users blindly use "bulk metadata download" thinking how much time they will save and end up with a mess...

Yes I like FantasticFiction mainly for the series information - it gives a far more readable/clearer view of an author's works than what Goodreads does. I am a high res cover whore nowadays though . The only downsides for me are (1) it sometimes picking the audio edition for book descriptions, (2) it has a smaller author database than Goodreads, and (3) there is a bug in the FF plugin which means if your book title has a non alphabetic character in it like an apostrophe or colon then the plugin will never return a search match. I might fix the bug one day - the workaround is to manually type the ff:somevalue id into the Edit Metadata dialog before repeating the metadata download, which is painful but works.

I think you hit the nail on the head: No GR ID at the time of search. , thus if sometimes fails to pull metadata.

And, I wish there was a 'no Audio book metadata option' (I have listened to a couple that were really well done, but the format does not lend itself to being interrupted (lost place, while fumbling to stop player...).
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