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davidfor · 07-22-2020, 01:06 AM

The metadata source plugins use two things to find books: identifiers and the title plus the author. In general, each metadata source plugins checks:

Identifier for the site
ISBN
Title and author
Title (not all do this)

In general, if there is an identifier for the site, that is all that is used. It is assumed that it is the correct value for the book. If the identifier is not found on the site, no more searches are done. Some can do the other checks, but not all.

If the book has an ISBN, and the site supports ISBN searches, this will be used. If there is a match, it will probably be treated the same as for the site identifier. If there is no match on the ISBN, the plugin will usually go to the title searching.

If the title searches are done, it is again dependent on the plugin and site. Some sites allow searches only on title, some allow author and title. This is handled in different ways by the various plugins.

For the book you are looking at, I think you will have to find the edition of the book you want manually and set the identifier. That should get the correct details from that site, but, you might also need to disable other metadata source plugins.

07-22-2020, 01:06 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	The metadata source plugins use two things to find books: identifiers and the title plus the author. In general, each metadata source plugins checks: Identifier for the site ISBN Title and author Title (not all do this) In general, if there is an identifier for the site, that is all that is used. It is assumed that it is the correct value for the book. If the identifier is not found on the site, no more searches are done. Some can do the other checks, but not all. If the book has an ISBN, and the site supports ISBN searches, this will be used. If there is a match, it will probably be treated the same as for the site identifier. If there is no match on the ISBN, the plugin will usually go to the title searching. If the title searches are done, it is again dependent on the plugin and site. Some sites allow searches only on title, some allow author and title. This is handled in different ways by the various plugins. For the book you are looking at, I think you will have to find the edition of the book you want manually and set the identifier. That should get the correct details from that site, but, you might also need to disable other metadata source plugins.