[GUI Plugin] Extract ISBN

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

TBH I have severe doubts over how useful such a toggle would be - because it is completely and totally at the publisher's "whim" as to where the ISBN appears in the book. It could change between editions, different book series, absolutely between different publishers etc.

So then how do you know whether it is at front or back for an individual book - you have to open it up and look. At which point you may as well just copy/paste the value and use it directly instead of using what the plugin creates.

I understand what you are asking for, but in my experience it would have such extremely limited usage in the use cases where you could rely on it being correct that it just isn't worth adding to the plugin.

Look for keywords to be able to pull the ISBN. In the sample, it has the keyword ebook. I've also seem electronic version. I've also seen paperback and then nothing. This would help IMHO.

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Maybe "fetch first ISBN" and "fetch last ISBN" menu entries, in cases where you know which one the publisher uses?

Better would be "fetch first of the last ISBN" cause of all the advertisements at the end nowadays.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Better would be "fetch first of the last ISBN" cause of all the advertisements at the end nowadays.

I've seen a lot of eBooks with the eBook's ISBN as the last ISBN. So it could be either way.

[ExtractMetadaten]

i like to steal your code, are there any rules?

found this in your repo:
GNU General Public License v3.0

[Shiesty_Apps]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've seen a lot of eBooks with the eBook's ISBN as the last ISBN. So it could be either way.

Hey, so I was also searching for this functionality because I exclusively read ebooks. I have a few extensions that leverage ebook ISBNs in order to track my reading. So, what I did was I took this plugin and tweaked it a little bit.

Now it prioritizes ebook ISBNs. I tested it on about 50 books that I have on my bookshelf, and it seems to be working. So here it Is. It falls back to the original logic of if it can’t locate an ebook isbn. It leverages the original plugins base functionality, scanning, etc.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=375372