Calibre is setting the pubdate to january every time

[chadamir]

Each time I add a book, I only have one source checked for metadata download (goodreads). I download the metadata but it says it found an earlier date and changes it to January of the year.

Starting download
Query: title:NSAQR 01 - I Am a Dalek; authorsoctor Who; isbn:0563486481
Running identify query with parameters:
{u'authors': [u'Doctor Who'], u'identifiers': {u'isbn': u'0563486481'}, u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'NSAQR 01 - I Am a Dalek'}
Using plugins: Goodreads
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Goodreads ******************************
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11')]
Found 1 results
Downloading from Goodreads took 2.4889998436


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Title : Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
Author(s) : Gareth Roberts
Publisher : BBC Books
Tags : Science Fiction, Fantasy
Rating : 3.34
Published : 2006-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : isbn:9780563486480, goodreads:459460
Comments : <p>Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up, Apollo mission-style, on the Moon. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens. Until now... An archaeological dig has turned up a Roman mosaic, circa 70 A.D., depicting mythical scenes, grapes - and a Dalek. A few days later a young woman, rushing for work, is knocked over and killed by a bus, then comes back to life. It's not long before all hell breaks loose, and the Doctor and Rose must use all their courage and cunning against an alien enemy - and a not-quite-alien accomplice - who are intent on destroying humanity.</p>
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?sear...e=books&search[query]=0563486481
ISBN match location: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459460.Doctor_Who'
Goodreads book url: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459460.Doctor_Who'

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The identify phase took 2.61 seconds
The longest time (2.489000) was taken by: Goodreads
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest publication dates
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.18 seconds

Consistently it's setting it to January 2nd of whatever year.

How do I fix this?

[kovidgoyal]

You cannot, that is the date returned by the xisbn service (which returns only years)

[chadamir]

Could I just block the xisbn in a hosts file as a work around? What is the advantage of having it use xisbn every time? What's doing the xisbn query is it the goodreads plugin or calibre? Could I disable it in a script or is it hardcoded?