Thread: fail to import isbns to Calibre and get the metadata
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Old 01-10-2020, 09:57 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Celialiu View Post
and I want to know if i managed to import my books by isbns, can i get the mass downloads of the cover images, weights, price, and the reading age range of every book in my library? The 4 kinds of statistics are important for me, and i have tried in goodreads and librarything and libib, but they all cant offer mass downloads of cover images and dont have information about price and age range. If cant, then i would not waste my time on Calibre.
Firstly, nearly all of the metadata source plugins will do bulk downloads of metadata and covers. Several of us have demonstrated we can get the metadata for some of the ISBNs in your list. If you cannot, it means something is wrong on your end. Most likely, it is a configuration issue, or that you haven't installed the appropriate metadata source plugin. This is why I have asked twice to see the logs from fetch. We can at least see what sources are being used and if there are errors. Though, maybe you have sorted this out.

But, if price, reading age and "weight" (I don't know what you mean by this) are important, than you are probably wasting your time. None of the metadata source plugins will get these. And in fact, very few of them have them on the site the the metadata is fetched from. The source site would need to be a shop to have the price and I'm not sure if I have seen anywhere that has reading age. There is also a technical issue. The metadata source plugins can only updates the core metadata. Price and reading age are not part of this. Which means that even if they are available on the site, it isn't easy to fetch them into the library. You can store these in calibre using a custom column, but, you will have to populate them by some other means.
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