Thread: [GUI Plugin] Goodreads Sync
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Old 07-22-2022, 04:16 AM   #1631
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Originally Posted by andrew.c12 View Post
@kiwidude I was wondering if I could suggest a new feature for this plugin.

When I search for books on Goodreads to link sometimes they don't come up due to the extremely verbose string that it searches for, but if I do the exact same search on Google limiting the search to the site Goodreads it finds the book.

I already modified my own copy to search Google instead and it works but I was wondering if you could add a button next to the Goodreads search that opens up a Google search.
What is the advantage? If I don't get a good match with this, I press the "Goodread search" button, look at the results and fiddle with the search until I get the match I want. Then I can drag that URL into the dialog for it to set the identifier (though I just discovered a Qt6 compatibility problem). Why is using Google better?

Of course, I rarely actually do that. What I usually do after adding a book is open the metadata editor and download the metadata from there. If that doesn't find a suitable match, then I will trim the extra rubbish from the title and try again. That usually solves it, sets the metadata to what I want plus the GR identifier for this plugin to use.

Between those to methods of getting the GR identifier, I don't see any point in using Google. What are you actually doing that would make this useful?
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