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Old 10-13-2010, 05:54 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by mitch13 View Post
I have two questions in relation to duplicates in the Calibre database.

1. Is there a quick way to find duplicate books in the Calibre database?

2. I have Calibre showing under 'On Device' 'Main (3 Books). Although I set 'Search' to look for items of the same name, when they come onto screen I cannot see what is causing the message (3 Books). What triggers this message to appear?

mitch13
This is one of those Microsoft "Click Start to shutdown" operations

With the Titles (yes, you can do many at once), select "Delete from Device"

Presto!
a list with all the locations shown (AND TICKED FOR DELETION)
You can peek, and abort
or
Remove the tic from the ones you want to KEEP

Execute
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