Kobo ebooks metadata download#
Sometimes I can pick a specific book and hit e for edit and then download metadata from there. Typically it just errors out on all of them. I then hit control D after selecting all books that I downloaded. They do not bring any metadata such as comments or tags with them however the books are good and I can read them with the book viewer. These are books that I just downloaded from my amazon account via computer and then added to calibre. One out of 10 books will actually download. The last few days I have been having really spoty results downloading metadata from amazon. My goal is to select the 500+ books, run a script to add the "Amazon:B0xxxxxxxx" automagically, the use to download metadata only and get the correct Amazon ebook metadata most of the time. So, is there some script or add-in available to do this automatically on a selected subset of books? With 500+ new books from the recent Open Roads giveaway, I really don't want to do this manually.
However, if I manually put in "Amazon:B01M33A032" in the IDs field, my success rate goes to 80% - 90%.
It will bring back the wrong book, no books, or the book in dead-tree version, which normally has little metadata. However, the metadata for IDs that is returned (i.e., mobi-asin:B01M33A032) has a very poor record of finding the correct book from Amazon when I hit => considerably less than 50%. Some parts of their data is just silly, and I periodically do search-and-delete on it I do a lot of editing on metadata, and have a lot of custom tags, but in many cases I'm dependent, at least initially, on the original Amazon data as a starting point. By best I mean not only the data, but being able to use the initial data to do a global search & replace (for example, all the various forms of Science Fiction to "SFF_". I get most of my of books from Amazon, and they seem to have the best selection (for ebooks) of metadata.
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