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Evilwarning · 10-19-2010, 04:40 PM

Hi

I've put the request based upon on the ISBN since i the scenario where is have some books in PDF format and others in LIT format. I have found that i could have differences in the titles and author field but same ISBN most probably from add process in the first place. Since i have a large library looking for duplicates and merging or deleting is very time consuming. Would be good to have a way of doing a search where the system identifies the same ISBN's and would allow in bulk to merge the items or just remove the duplicates. This happens when we load different formats at different time.

I have had the case of when i load the documents i have lots of books (PDF Articles) on the case of Unknown Author and common title merge by title and author would merge different books.

The ideal solution would a window with a table where the user could see the list or duplicated items grouped and would be possible to select bulk option of removing or merging the items or just select case by case. If we could choose the fields that would be used create the rule for the query, like search by ISBN or by combination Author/Title/Series would be even better

I know that this may be quite a lot of work and will only be of great use for people that have large libraries and have different document formats.

Thank you for all your effort, Calibre is a great tool.

10-19-2010, 04:40 PM	#4
Evilwarning Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: iPad	Hi I've put the request based upon on the ISBN since i the scenario where is have some books in PDF format and others in LIT format. I have found that i could have differences in the titles and author field but same ISBN most probably from add process in the first place. Since i have a large library looking for duplicates and merging or deleting is very time consuming. Would be good to have a way of doing a search where the system identifies the same ISBN's and would allow in bulk to merge the items or just remove the duplicates. This happens when we load different formats at different time. I have had the case of when i load the documents i have lots of books (PDF Articles) on the case of Unknown Author and common title merge by title and author would merge different books. The ideal solution would a window with a table where the user could see the list or duplicated items grouped and would be possible to select bulk option of removing or merging the items or just select case by case. If we could choose the fields that would be used create the rule for the query, like search by ISBN or by combination Author/Title/Series would be even better I know that this may be quite a lot of work and will only be of great use for people that have large libraries and have different document formats. Thank you for all your effort, Calibre is a great tool.