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TraceyC (grrlgeek) wrote : Re: [Bug 2023046] Re: Get Books unable to find book from ebooks.com

My original report included Get Books not being able to find a book in ebooks.com. From your response it sounds like you can't find it either in ebooks.com. If so why is this marked Fix Released? Do I need to open a second bug report for the original issue?

Aug 24, 2023 10:05:21 PM Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>:

> Nope I can find them searching either amazon or B&N as I said in my
> previous response, I fixed B&N not ebooks.com. And amazon was working
> already.
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> Title:
>   Get Books unable to find book from ebooks.com
>
> Status in calibre:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   There is a book on ebooks.com that does not appear in the Get Books search results in Calibre. It appears in other stores which carry this title (Kobo).
>   I don't see a result for Barnes & Noble or Amazon Kindle either, which also carry it. I've seen results for books on Amazon in prior searches.
>
>   Title: "Witch King" by Martha Wells.
>
>   https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210645156/witch-king/martha-wells/
>
>   https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-king-martha-
>   wells/1141976525?ean=9781250826800
>
>   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9KVV7JH/
>
>   In Configure, I increased number of seconds to wait for a store to
>   respond, and to let a store process results, to 90. This did not
>   change the search results. The spinner above the "Stop" button is
>   still spinning even after a few minutes, I don't know if that's
>   related.
>
>   See the attached screenshot of the search results.
>
>   Calibre has been great software for me and I appreciate all the effort
>   that goes into its development. I'm happy to help troubleshoot this
>   issue. I don't know python, so I'm not able to try to fix this myself.
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