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Hi,
Yes, I have an account with isbndb, and I don't see anything terribly "intriguing" about this feature, nor is it my idea. As I said, Alfa Ebooks Manager can fetch an ISBN from a PDF. FWIW, Zotero can do this, too, though there are other limitations with Zotero. To be honest, it doesn't sound like you really read my post before replying.
Think about it this way: the ISBN is already in the ebook, it's a unique identifier for that book, it could be read from the file and used to fetch all the metadata automatically, so why should you have to enter any information at all?
I have a number of ebooks, and for me the lack of this feature is kind of a deal breaker. It's hard to justify spending hours twiddling metadata. Calibre is pretty slow, too, but I would certainly live with that if it could fetch metadata automatically.
Finally, I would prefer an open-source application like Calibre over the commercial Alfa Ebooks Manager (which is only for Windows, too), but I guess I'll just have to keep looking at other possibilities.
M
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