Hi thanks for responding - yes I did check to see if isbn was available - i even tried with books i had already found metadata for before this function stopped working. I tried generating a new access key but still failed. I tried clearing out cache in browser etc (firefox) in case there was something blocking but no luck there either.
As well as the no meta data found alert there is also the message
Warning: could not fetch metadata from:
Google Books: (10060, " a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because the connected host has failed to respond")
IsbnDB: Could not fetch ISBNB metadata. Error:
Calibre is brill for sorting out my library but I am really missing this function as it saves so much typing!! I'm sure I'm going to kick myself when I find out what is causing the problem ... so if you have any more thoughts I'd be truly greatful