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Originally Posted by Starson17
Sort by title and manually looking is the only way inside the GUI. There is no "press a button to show duplicates" function. I've posted my two workarounds.
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OK, I lied. Just last week I wrote some special code that implements the autosorting/automerge function when doing a Copy to Library. That code was released minutes ago as 0.7.17.
You can do this:
1) create an empty library
2) make sure that the autosort/automerge option is on (the one with the long name referred to above in Preferences|Add/Save)
3) select all your books and right click then Copy to Library
This should cause all of your duplicates to be merged during the transfer. You should check carefully, as I've only tested it once. I hesitated to mention it as it hadn't even been released until I checked a minute ago.
If you're happy with the merge, use the new library.
Yes, Calibre changes minute by minute.
Full disclosure: When I say "I wrote ... code" what I really mean is I submit code that works (sort of) then Kovid tells me he's "refactored" it. That's a polite way of saying he's taken my crappy code and cleaned it up so it meets the high standards he keeps for Calibre.