Adding Books -> Download Metadata -> Search By

[tarisea]

I'm a little rusty and setting up my library that I didn't move properly from one computer to another.

I need to add metadata to a pile of books. But lets say I'm doing this one book at a time. For some reason a lot of my books that I added from Kindle, its only reading the mobi-asin number and putting it in the Title field. So I move it to IDs and hit "Download metadata" but since it is only searching for Title and Author it doesn't find anything. How do I get it to search IDs?

Thank you for your help

[theducks]

Originally Posted by tarisea

I'm a little rusty and setting up my library that I didn't move properly from one computer to another.

I need to add metadata to a pile of books. But lets say I'm doing this one book at a time. For some reason a lot of my books that I added from Kindle, its only reading the mobi-asin number and putting it in the Title field. So I move it to IDs and hit "Download metadata" but since it is only searching for Title and Author it doesn't find anything. How do I get it to search IDs?

Thank you for your help

Add has 2 modes, read from Metadat OR read the file name.
For commercial books, I would use the from Metadata, that should populate title,Author and ID (ASIN)

If you used from file name already
Open the Metadata editor, Select a format on the right, Click the book with Pencil icon near it.
That should read the internal metadata for the selected format.
Click Next.
Repeat

[tarisea]

So apparently the metadata isn't the option. I am importing a pile of kindle books. Some of them are coming in with the metadata and those open no problem (I have drm removal plugin). The ones that are coming in with no metadata are also not importing properly and I get an error when I try to open them. I don't have an idea what's wrong on how to fix it.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by tarisea

So apparently the metadata isn't the option. I am importing a pile of kindle books. Some of them are coming in with the metadata and those open no problem (I have drm removal plugin). The ones that are coming in with no metadata are also not importing properly and I get an error when I try to open them. I don't have an idea what's wrong on how to fix it.

Maybe you're plagued by this issue ==>> Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 and KFX in calibre

BR

[tarisea]

Thank you so much for your help. I'm sure calibre is working on a fix, until then I will just stick with the old version of Kindle.

All the best.