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Old 09-01-2020, 03:47 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
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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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
calibre will use title/author if isbn generates no matches. And no calibre has no control over what matches a website decides to return for any given query.
What's weird is that the exact book that I wanted (and it had the ISBN) was available, but the second match when I went through the individual metadata downloader.

The two books had completely different ISBNs, too:

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