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Old 11-29-2009, 11:14 AM   #5
kovidgoyal
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When supplied an ISBN the metadata retrieval in calibre uses that. It does not try and map that ISBN to the whole set of ISBNs for each book, as I have no idea how to do that reliably.

Personally, I think the whole system of ISBNs is badly broken. They made sense when books were relatively static things. In the digital age they're a bit of an anachronism.
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