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RJA · 06-13-2009, 11:43 AM

I am new to eBooks and Calibre so I probably did something "silly."

I had downloaded several .lit books and added them to Calibre. I converted them to .lrf for my 505 and then deleted the .lit files (just to save some space). Then I noticed that some of the titles were all caps, some author names were first then last and some were last, first. I also noticed that the covers were Microsoft product pages. I used the meta data edit and fixed some things. I used ISBN search and got the proper cover pages. I stored this all in Calibre. I also set some tags and some series information. Then I did a save to disk with each book being in it's own directory under the author right back into the Calibre folder. I assumed an update-in-place would occur. When I look in the Calibre directory I now find multiple folders for some authors (different name orders and capitalization) and two copies of each book with different (###) extension. How can I clean up this mess and ensure I don't drop the tags, series, and new covers? Also, how can I clean out all the Microsoft product cover pages?

TIA guys.

06-13-2009, 11:43 AM	#1
RJA Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Western Canada Device: Sony PRS-505	duplicates in database I am new to eBooks and Calibre so I probably did something "silly." I had downloaded several .lit books and added them to Calibre. I converted them to .lrf for my 505 and then deleted the .lit files (just to save some space). Then I noticed that some of the titles were all caps, some author names were first then last and some were last, first. I also noticed that the covers were Microsoft product pages. I used the meta data edit and fixed some things. I used ISBN search and got the proper cover pages. I stored this all in Calibre. I also set some tags and some series information. Then I did a save to disk with each book being in it's own directory under the author right back into the Calibre folder. I assumed an update-in-place would occur. When I look in the Calibre directory I now find multiple folders for some authors (different name orders and capitalization) and two copies of each book with different (###) extension. How can I clean up this mess and ensure I don't drop the tags, series, and new covers? Also, how can I clean out all the Microsoft product cover pages? TIA guys.