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Old 01-11-2020, 03:29 PM   #27
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FTR: Because most of my 'books' aren't commercial books I enter the metadata manually, including the commercial books. I'm not interested in tags, ratings, blurbs etc - and other fields are often wrong or waste of space variants.

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Originally Posted by thiago.eec View Post
Sorry everyone. I made a mistake that caused a lot of confusion.
On my first post I typed the WRONG ISBN (it was on my clipboard because I was testing another title in portuguese).

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Thank goodness for that, I thought I was going nuts for a while. I made a similar mistake yesterday in another thread - read 'title' and thought 'author'


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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
DNSB
9788 is not an English ISBN (as the MDE view shows: Portuguese )

This may be a Metadata plugin configuration issue. Yours must accept a broader lookup scope.

(English language books are 9780 or 9781 )
I now notice you pointed this out earlier - I missed it first time around.


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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I've already edited my message but looking closer at BR's log snippet, it appears he is using the Google search cache option for Amazon metadata while I am using the Amazon servers option.
I did my tests using default settings on a freshly installed 4.8 Portable, the "Google search cache option" is what comes in the box. So, where is the "Amazon servers option"?

When I did an Advanced Search on the amazon.com and the amazon.co.uk sites using thiago.eec's 9788xxxxxxxxx ISBN they found the Portuguese book. So why does the built-in Amazon MD Source plugin search via Google and Bing rather than direct?

I assume it's because of the 'swamping the server' issue. Poor little AMZN, last time I looked it was only worth just shy of a trillion USD.

BR

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