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Originally Posted by ldolse
the metadata itself is not merged - one book's metadata wins over the other book as far as I can tell. The winner is based on the order in which you select the books before the merge.
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I wrote both Merge and AutoMerge.
Merge:
Most metadata fields (author, title, publisher, series, etc.) can only take one entry. The first selected book wins.
Tag fields are merged to keep all entries, but duplicates are removed. You can't have the same tag twice. All tags from all books are kept.
Description/comments fields are concatenated. A check is done to see if the comment/description field is identical to the first selected book so you don't get the same description five times.
AutoMerge:
This does nothing more than put the incoming book format into an existing "matching" book record if that format does not already exist for that record. "Matching" is based on exact match of author and fuzzy match of title. No metadata is added to the existing record. If a matching record is found, and that record already has the incoming format, the incoming format is not added.
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I don't have any idea about two books with the same format - my guess would be the winner is also purely chosen based on the order which you selected the books.
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For Merge, the first selected is kept and the others are deleted. For AutoMerge, the incoming format is ignored.