Thread: Transferring ebook annotations to new Kindle
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Old 09-09-2010, 10:07 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
I am sort-of on topic here.

I have run into a relative of this problem several times.

Changing author or title metadata, or changing the folder path in device customization, can cause a book to be put in a different 'place' next time it is sent to the device. However, the original book is not deleted, so I now have two copies of the book on my reader. The result can be confusion over which copy I am actually reading. The work I am doing with using custom field metadata in folder paths exacerbates the problem, because there are more opportunities for metadata to change.

To help deal with this issue, I changed calibre's 'On Device' indicator to show the number of books it found on the device that match a given book in the library. One now can easily see the confusing cases (e.g., search for 'ondevice:book'), and can use the 'remove matching books from device' to get rid of any extra copies. During testing, I found a case where I had 4 copies of one book on my reader.

This change will appear be in 0.7.18
Now you fix that

I just cleaned up many dozens of entries on my PEz (I have been tweaking the books with Sigil and sending updates to my device), some times scratching my south end trying to figur why my *fix* did not work....old version still in place.



Is the "on device" tweak, going to show us a "count" of how many places i a title was found?
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