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Old 05-17-2023, 06:17 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Generally, I find removing all the extra crap(*) from the title leaving just the title and making sure the Amazon ID (ASIN) is correct makes download Amazon's metadata a lot more reliable. Even then, Amazon seems to have cranked their DoS settings up to the point that doing more than 3 metadata searches rapidly will trigger a lockout returning no data for 5 minutes or so.

* I've never understood why Amazon's love for having the title, subtitle, series info and even "A Novel" in the title is useful. The last record holder also included most of the first paragraph of the blurb in the "title".
That ASIN (ASIN: 'B0BLCZGQ8L' is good
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