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Groupie
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How to add sideloaded books by asin or old isbn
In general I am able to add "empty" books to Calibre and after that pulling the metadata by entering the ISBN or ASIN.
But there is a feature in Calibre (sorry if wording is slightly different, as I translate from German) in the add-Book section named add-from-ISBN. Very often I know only asin or old 10-digit ISBN. Using "add-from-ISBN" with old 10-digit ISBN creates only an empty dummy book. The IDs field shows "isbn:.........X". If I now click add-Metadata it works well. But why is that not happens immediately in one go? It works very well when I add 13-digit ISBN into "add-from-ISBN but I don't know where to get this number. Would it be possible to allow entries like "isbn:....X" or "asin:B..." in add-from-ISBN"? |
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ISBN10 (AKA old) X is a valid check digit because they use mod11 rules.
The first digit(s) is Language. Nothing found might be because your enabled metadata sources do not support that languages books. (or like when I did that task in 2011, my versions were ancient) |
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Maybe a ISBN 10 to 13 converter could help?
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I use this... https://isbnsearch.org/
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Thanks all for your reply.
I will keep the link for the converter. As mentioned, download metadata works but only with extra steps. I will raise a change request for the feature "add by isbn". Perhaps this can work along with the settings from "edit Metadata" as ISBN10 and ASIN works well in that dialog. |
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