[lemonboy]

I have the 0.7.15 calibre with a load of lit files and windows vista.

If I try to load metadata from the web, it takes an inordinate amount of time.

I have an isbndb account.

I can take the title and search on amazon and find the isbn before calibre decides it cant find anything.

When I then put in the isbn found from amazon it takes about 2 mins to find the metadata.

Why does this take so long, if I try to search for multiple files the problem is multiplied and effectively makes the multiple lookup function impossible.

When carrying out a multiple search, the gui only tells you how many files are being searched, it gives no indication of progress, therefore if it is locked up you do not know.

Is the lookup using some form of scraping on Amazon, if so what code is it using and where is the function (in what language). I'm sure this can be much more effective - as I said earlier, I can actually do this quicker with a manual search in amazon. If someone can tell me where to look in the code, I can surely try to make this more efficient.