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Originally Posted by davidfor
What I do do with when I want to add just an identifier to a book is do the search and copy the link displayed then cancel the search. Then, click on the paste button next to the identifiers field. If the URL is recognised, it will be parsed and added as an identifier. Not all metadata source plugins will do this, but, all the ones I maintain do. This includes Goodreads.
But, for Goodreads, you might be better to use the Goodreads Sync plugin. It has function to get the identifier from Goodreads. You can choose the book from the matches it finds and it lets you choose the edition.
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Thanks for your reply. Yes, both of those methods will work for semi-automated, but with hundreds of books that I'd like to update, that's not presently practical.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
The title and author cannot be deselected at the plugin level for any metadata source plugin. They can be deselected in the main metadata download preferences. That might do what you want. I have never experimented with this.
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Good tip -- so I experimented. In case it's useful to anyone:
I deselected all fields in the main metadata download preferences, deselected all sources except goodreads, and did a download metadata only. Although the "review downloaded metadata" screen suggests that new content was downloaded even to the deselected fields, it lies; what's shown on the left is an echo of the previously existing content (author, title), a disregarded value (publisher='undefined'), or values that will be merged with an existing multivalue field (identifiers).
Short version: this works. Deselect all fields in the main metadata download preferences, deselect all sources except Goodreads, download metadata only. Goodreads identifiers will be merged into the identifiers field.
1. Yay.
2. davidfor, thanks for the hint, and for the plugin.
3. Unfortunately, this will be less directly useful when the GoodreadsSync plugin stops working due to GRs decision to discontinue the API -- but the metadata is still some of the best. Again, thanks to davidfor.