04-11-2016, 06:04 PM | #1 |
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Calibre not downloading metadata from Amazon
It's the old 1.48 portable version that runs on XP. It won't download metadata for any book from Amazon. What can I do about that? I've run multiple books multiple times on multiple domains. It gets metadata from elsewhere, but not Amazon.
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If the processor is SSE2 (not the older AMD's) compatible, you might consider running Linux (Mint ) on that laptop |
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Sticky: Why can't I install the latest calibre on Windows XP?
It lays out all the options. The easiest one is probably to use my WinXP-backports fork of the source code (option #3). Although I strongly encourage installing Linux Mint or some other Linux distribution. |
04-12-2016, 11:47 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for the help and links. I just wanted to fix the Amazon metadata. The other options and backports and Linux sound good but I don't have that option right now as I only have non-admin rights on this computer and run Calibre off a USB drive.
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04-12-2016, 11:55 AM | #5 |
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Many Linux (Live CD transfer) will run from a USB Stick (it just needs the room for all your stuff and Linux. A 32 or 64G stick should work unless your Library is crazy huge)
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None of it requires admin rights.
The backports can be used with an environment variable and downloading a source code ZIP. Linux is installed to the hardware, not from Windows you should own the computer but you would be going around the admin account altogether, since you ignore the MS Windows install. Try the backports, it really isn't all that hard. |
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