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Originally Posted by theducks
There does not seem to be any "Normalization" of data. Author names appear with spaces between initials, and sometimes not.  |
Authors, and indeed most items, are normalized in the DB sense. Each exists once in some table.
However, spelling variations are not automatically corrected. For example, outside of merge processing, calibre does not consider any of "Lawrence, D H", "Lawrence, DH", or "Lawrence, D.H.", "D H Lawrence", or "Lawrence, D" to be the same author. The merge code may detect some of these because it strips punctuation before doing the compare.