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Old 06-28-2026, 11:36 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by gtriever View Post
Help! Suddenly I have issues with book searches and cover searches.

Over 95% of my book searches come back with a [Failure to find book] error, and cover downloads only find one or two small sized covers, no Amazon or Google covers... and as far as I know I haven't changed anything.

Ideas, anybody?
Amazon doesn't really work unless you have the ASIN set correctly in the metadata ID. Google doesn't work because they are blocking you. Kobo sometimes works but not always because of Cloudflare. Storygraph always returns small covers when it works. The only plugin that reliably works for covers is the Apple one.

As for metadata downloads (IMHO) forget it. It doesn't work reliably and when it does, you often get rubbish that has to be hand corrected.
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