Fix book details
Look up missing details such as an ISBN, review what was found, and accept only what is right.
Library Hub can look up a book's details and propose fixes. Nothing changes in Calibre until you accept it.
Look up details#
- For one book: open its note and run This book: Look up metadata (in the More menu on the panel's Book tab).
- For every book without an ISBN: select Look up… on the Review tab, or run Review: Look up books without an ISBN.
For each book it:
- reads the book's first pages for the title, authors, publisher and year as printed;
- asks Open Library, and Google Books if you added a key, by the printed ISBN and by title and author;
- judges each record found against those pages. A record counts as this book only when a quote from it is found in the text.
What happens to what it finds#
- A record the book itself confirms is queued for Calibre.
- So is one a decision model judges plausible with confidence.
- Everything else becomes a row to review, in
Books/Review.
Review and apply#
- Open the review notes and accept or reject each row.
- Select Apply… under Apply accepted reviews, or run Review: Apply accepted metadata reviews. Accepted rows become changes in the write queue.
- Write them to Calibre: see Changes to Calibre, and undo.
Duplicate author names#
Run Review: Find duplicate author names. Similar names are judged, and the likely duplicates are sent to review.