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Originally Posted by itimpi
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Originally Posted by jekkii
So if i have e.g. a book with the title "Nice world" and the same book with the title "World nice" (because the scanner haven't made somehow the right job), Calibre finds them two different books although they are same. On the other way (per hash) there would have been identified as duplicates.
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There is also the fact that a book can be a duplicte even though it is not byte identical to an existing file. for instance it might just have different metadata stored inside it.
The key point is that Calibre is working at the 'book' level and not the 'file' level when considering duplicates. |
Excellent point, anyone wishing to use MD5 hashes to find dupes should do so prior to adding the books. Just viewing a epub in calibre changes the book file and thus the hash due to adding or changing the bookmark.