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Originally Posted by jhowell
What you are trying to accomplish? Are you trying to get the GoodReads link to work on your Kindle for sideloaded books?
Kindles do not care about ISBN numbers. Books are identified by a 10 character ASIN beginning with the letter B.
Before converting to KFX the book entry needs to have an identifier named either "mobi-asin", "amazon", or "asin" containing the ASIN of the same book sold by Amazon as a Kindle edition. That will be embedded into the book file produced.
Calibre's Download Metadata function is hit or miss at finding ASINs. You often have to set it manually after locating the book on Amazon's website.
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Correct, I'm trying to get Goodreads link working with sideloaded books to my Kindle .. AND .. it would be awesome to have a consistently working 'download metadata' feature, to make quick work of setting up my book metadata when I first bring it into my library.
It sounds like you're saying that the amazon ASIN is the only thing needed in the IDs field to allow for GoodReads integration? That's good to know. However, I've been putting in "isbn:xxxx, amazon:yyyy, goodreads:zzzz" and then the 'download metadata' button has worked pretty much 100% of the time in pulling proper metadata, without overwriting the IDs field. But maybe that's overkill?
I was going to ask this in the KFX output plugin thread, but since you're here:
Is there a reason the IDs field gets overwritten with just the mobi-asin/amazon ID after a KFX export? In my scenario above where I've spent the time to enter all three, could KFX export not just keep it as is, with no overwriting?
Also, is there a reason that series, number rating, and tags can't get embedded in the KFX output?