What will happen to duplicate books ?

intunachintu · 03-31-2011, 12:14 AM

When I am not allowed to have my own directory structure, what will happen to same books in same format that are duplicates or have slight changes when I add both of them to calibre ?

Manichean · 03-31-2011, 03:05 AM

Depends on what you've set automerge to (preferences->adding books). Calibre will either just add them as a duplicate book or try to merge them according to your automerge settings.

intunachintu · 03-31-2011, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Manichean

Depends on what you've set automerge to (preferences->adding books). Calibre will either just add them as a duplicate book or try to merge them according to your automerge settings.

What does merge mean ? Will the new one replace old one or what ?

Manichean · 03-31-2011, 07:30 AM

See preferences->adding books. The options for merging are explained there.

lilywhite · 04-02-2011, 03:29 PM

It looks to me as though what the tooltip says is that if the "duplicate" book being added is in a different *format* then both books will be added to the same folder, but if it's the same *format* then nothing happens. I took that to mean no "merging" would occur.

I wish we could choose to replace!

kiwidude · 04-02-2011, 03:48 PM

Are you using an old version of Calibre? Any from the last couple of months should have a combo dropdown of options in Preferences->Adding books for automerge, one of which includes "Overwrite existing duplicate formats".

DoctorOhh · 04-02-2011, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by lilywhite

I wish we could choose to replace!

As of 0.7.45 you can replace!

Quote:

Release: 0.7.45 [11 Feb, 2011]

New Features

New option to control how automerge handles duplicate formats when adding books to your calibre library. See Preferences->Adding books

lilywhite · 04-08-2011, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dwanthny

As of 0.7.45 you can replace!

I am perfectly delighted!

You guys rock!

03-31-2011, 12:14 AM	#1
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03-31-2011, 03:05 AM	#2
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Depends on what you've set automerge to (preferences->adding books). Calibre will either just add them as a duplicate book or try to merge them according to your automerge settings.

03-31-2011, 07:30 AM	#4
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	See preferences->adding books. The options for merging are explained there.

04-02-2011, 03:29 PM	#5
lilywhite Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 178 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle	It looks to me as though what the tooltip says is that if the "duplicate" book being added is in a different format then both books will be added to the same folder, but if it's the same format then nothing happens. I took that to mean no "merging" would occur. I wish we could choose to replace!

04-02-2011, 03:48 PM	#6
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,637 Karma: 2162064 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Are you using an old version of Calibre? Any from the last couple of months should have a combo dropdown of options in Preferences->Adding books for automerge, one of which includes "Overwrite existing duplicate formats".