Is "Update All" a feature on Delicious Library?
Does Delicious Library support bulk updating? I need to update information I've imported from Readerware, but I do not want to manually update the cover art and information for 1600+ titles. Without that option Delicious Library loses its deliciousness. Any help?
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You can select multiple items and then select the option to refresh details. Just highlight the ones you want to be updated, or press command-A to select all, and then hit command-R to refresh.
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That option is grayed out. It seems to only work with items that you import directly into the program and not with the ones that I imported from Readerware.
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You can only "refresh details from internet" for items with an Amazon link (ASIN) specified. DL2 only fetches info from Amazon, so without the ASIN, it doesn't know where to look.
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If that's the case, then it's a big problem. My imported records give title, author, isbn, and all the publishing information. It is ridiculous to have to go one by one and update that info. That's what the program should do.
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Hmm. I just tested with DL1 and importing a list of ISBNs will do lookups for them as expected. DL2 just gives imports the list sans lookups.
I don't know what DL1 does when it finds 2 Amazon items associated with 1 ISBN (which I've seen a couple times on Amazon =_=).
So, at least, if you have a copy of DL1, you could feed it a list of ISBNs and generate a list of ASINs to import into DL2.-
I don't have DL1. =( Still seems ridiculous that anyone would have to go through all that to import a list.
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Unfortunately, since DL2 only looks at Amazon and doesn't lookup for ISBN imports, this seems to be the fastest way I can figure out.
I could help you with it, if you like.-
That would be really nice of you. I would appreciate it!! Let me know where I should send the file.
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For most book types the ASIN is just the ISBN. When you import just tell the importer in DL2 that the ISBN column is actually the ASIN column then you can reload all the rest of the book details from amazon.
It is really odd that they reduced the functionality and made this more difficult to do with DL 2. -
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Murray- I wasn't around when DL2 was first being written, so I'm unsure of why the functionality changed. However, this is now a popular request from people, so it's something that might get put back in a future version.
Sorry for your frustration! -
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I tested importing the same set of items (using only ISBN and Titles) twice. After indicating to DL that the ISBN was the Amazon Link, I refreshed the items. The first time, I was able to populate all the different fields. But the second time only the covers got updated but none of the other fields. Seems like a bug
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