Thread: Review metadata: how to select a different book?
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Old 08-31-2020, 11:36 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Is there any way to at least influence what book get selected as the best match by the bulk downloader? It's kind of silly adding a children's book and having it select some BDSM erotica novel instead. (Particularly egregrious is that this particular book actually had the ISBN in the identifier column, but somehow Calibre fell back to title/author instead.)
You probably need to look at the metadata sources you are using. Not all can use the ISBN for a search. Some must use title and author. Or just the title. And those that can use the ISBN, will usually do a title/author search if no result was found for the ISBN.
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