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Originally Posted by LGN
Calibre does get the meta data but when adding a book it purely handles on Title alone based on tests. While the title might be the same and authors and other meta data are different I just get the message that a book with the same title exists and asking me to add the new book anyway. This forces me to manually check each title. So the option you refer to is used at the time of adding the book.
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By default, Calibre will ask if you want books with duplicate titles added. The book you are trying to add may have a different author or the same author, but Calibre still wants to know if you want to add the duplicate title.
I wanted a bit more automation, so I wrote the autosort/automerge option. When turned on, it will compare the author and then fuzzy match the title. If the author is the same and the title a close match to an existing book record, it will try to put the new format you are adding into the matching existing book record. If the format you are trying to add is already in the existing matching record, it will skip that format. If title matches and author does not match, it will create a new record for that format.
The autosort/automerge option is found in Preferences|Import/Export|Adding Books|"If books with similar ..." It's most useful when adding large numbers of books with drag/drop where you do not want duplicates of the same book.