Combining books

HistoryWes · 09-19-2011, 01:44 PM

I've been using and enjoying Calibre for some time now and I've added a lot of books to my ebook library. The other day I added a book I already had. Now Calibre tells me if I already have that book, but in this case, it was in a different format.

Once I had them both in Calibre, I went deleted one and then went into the metadata of the other and loaded a new format. I thought wouldn't it be great if we could just click on the two books and combine them together, so that the two formats could be under one entry.

If there is an easy way to do this already, please let me know. If not, this might be a nice feature to add.

theducks · 09-19-2011, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HistoryWes

I've been using and enjoying Calibre for some time now and I've added a lot of books to my ebook library. The other day I added a book I already had. Now Calibre tells me if I already have that book, but in this case, it was in a different format.

Once I had them both in Calibre, I went deleted one and then went into the metadata of the other and loaded a new format. I thought wouldn't it be great if we could just click on the two books and combine them together, so that the two formats could be under one entry.

If there is an easy way to do this already, please let me know. If not, this might be a nice feature to add.

M for merge

First select the destination
Hold the control key and select the book(s) to merge into the first.
Tap M

alansplace · 09-19-2011, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HistoryWes

I've been using and enjoying Calibre for some time now and I've added a lot of books to my ebook library. The other day I added a book I already had. Now Calibre tells me if I already have that book, but in this case, it was in a different format.

Once I had them both in Calibre, I went deleted one and then went into the metadata of the other and loaded a new format. I thought wouldn't it be great if we could just click on the two books and combine them together, so that the two formats could be under one entry.

If there is an easy way to do this already, please let me know. If not, this might be a nice feature to add.

select the book, then when importing the new format choose add books->add files to selected book records.

mikaelalind · 09-19-2011, 03:30 PM

Well, there is a plugin that detects duplicates. Not sure how it works, since I don't use it

HistoryWes · 09-19-2011, 05:04 PM

Thanks guys! I'm going to try it out right now.

09-19-2011, 01:44 PM	#1
HistoryWes Teacher/Novelist Posts: 632 Karma: 2274466 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Nevada Device: Nook STR, iPad	Combining books I've been using and enjoying Calibre for some time now and I've added a lot of books to my ebook library. The other day I added a book I already had. Now Calibre tells me if I already have that book, but in this case, it was in a different format. Once I had them both in Calibre, I went deleted one and then went into the metadata of the other and loaded a new format. I thought wouldn't it be great if we could just click on the two books and combine them together, so that the two formats could be under one entry. If there is an easy way to do this already, please let me know. If not, this might be a nice feature to add.

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mikaelalind Fanatic Posts: 590 Karma: 788068 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sweden Device: Sony PRS 505, Cybook Odessey	Well, there is a plugin that detects duplicates. Not sure how it works, since I don't use it

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