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First you should check the automerge added books setting in preferences>adding books.
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Calibre will automatically merge books if the title and author are identical. You may want to set it to ignore duplicate incoming formats, maybe not. I would if you have a lot of books, or you can create a seperate record and use the find duplicates plugin to sort a good many. But good options to be aware of.
Once the books are in you can merge several records by clicking on one and control clicking the others and pressing M.
Other settings to be aware of at this point are alos on this screen.
I would take maybe 10-100 books and see how they appear and change those settings as appropriate. Doesn't take long to add 100 books if you put them in one directory and drag and drop or other methods. Will save you a lot of time in the long run as well as well a few oh nos.
Also practice on those few with the bulk edit metadata function.
Then import them all.
Helen
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