Goodreads Metadata plugin for Calibre

[stormcloude]

Hi guys, I thought I'd mention this here because I know a lot of you are m/m readers and the current plugins for Calibre often have a hard time finding metadata for those books. (Also I kinda pestered the developer into writing this plugin and I told him lots of people would love it. I hope I'm not wrong about that.)

Anyway, there's now plugins for Calibre that will fetch metadata and covers from Goodreads. You can find them here. If you find them useful, a thank you to the dev might not be amiss. He was a rockstar for helping with this when the Calibre creator said he thought it would be pointless and that Amazon and Googlebooks were enough.

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

I haven't used the metadata one yet but the covers one pulled a cover that none of the other plug-ins I have were able to find. WIN!

[stormcloude]

I really think I lucked out in approaching the right guy on mobileread. He took this and ran with it.

[supermouse]

Brilliant. Thanks.

[stormcloude]

:)

[darkemeralds]

You're a rockstar for pestering him.

[stormcloude]

I'll assume you're not being sarcastic there. Hard to tell through the internet.

He actually kind of took off on his own with it and ran after the first time I mentioned it to him.

[darkemeralds]

No! Not sarcastic at all! Your willingness to seek improvements that benefit fandom is admirable.

[stormcloude]

*grins* I gotta admit it was mostly for my own benefit since I got tired of all my books not being able to pull metadata when I could clearly see it on goodreads. I was doing a lot of cutting and pasting before this. But I am glad too that other people will be able to use it. I figure if I'm having the problem, other people must be too.

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's been a while since this was shared, but I want you to know I just found it today. So pleased because I was getting pretty frustrated.