Thread: [GUI Plugin] Goodreads Sync
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Old 03-01-2020, 07:03 PM   #1342
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Orz View Post
My primary source for books is Amazon. Kindle books from Amazon do not have ISBNs, and Goodreads can work much better with Amazon's ASIN when searching and matching, etc.

When performing a batch search, I find that the plugin never matches anything automatically. I had to manually search and select for thousands of books. Is it possible to support or default to using ASIN as the relational database primary key?

Also, it would be really helpful to support "fuzzy search" when matching Goodreads books to Calibre books, then just present a table of fuzzy searched results for confirmation if it can have secondary options in a dropdown menu, that would be even better.
For most book matching, I recommend using the metadata download, and the Goodreads metadata source plugin. That can match on ASIN as well as ISBN and author/title.

Adding ASIN matching here would be possible. But, it would mean duplicating code from the metadata source plugin. And that means maintaining it in two places. I don't really see an advantage in doing it this way, so I don't really think it is worth the extra work.
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