Thread: Recently learned to run "Extract ISBN" before "Download Metadata". Do U do that too?
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Old 08-08-2020, 10:47 PM   #15
davidfor
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Originally Posted by droopy View Post
I don't mind. In fact, I often use the ISBN of the pback version. The ISBN for an electronic version may be limited to a particular webstore/publisher (e.g. Kindle Store, Kobo Store, etc.). This unnecessarily limits the metadata downloaded
In that case, why bother extracting the ISBN? The metadata source plugins work as @thiago.eec said in their first response. If the library already has an ISBN it will be used, but, if there is none, or the ISBN isn't found on the source site, the title and author will be used. I don't really find that having the ISBN helps the accuracy that much.

And for curiosity, I ran Extract ISBN across 50 books that I already had an ISBN for. The plugin didn't find an ISBN in 27 of them. So, I'd be wasting my time for half the books in my library. I find that having the correct title and author is enough to find the book.
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