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geordiejohn · 12-23-2010, 01:59 PM

hello i have added some Ed Mcbain books to Calibre,about 40 books and then i added about 30 more Ed Mcbain but i seem to have quite a lot of the same titles and i cannot see anyway of highlighting them and finding the duplicates,is there an easy way of doing this please as it is hurting my eyes now trying to scan them all ?
also when i add a book it puts it to Calibre with the format-Ed Mcbain and i would like the surname first,i have had to change every book one at a time so the surname is first and then the title,once again is there an easy way to do this please ?
i did see something about tweak but i am afraid i dont seem to be clever enough to do it that way.
thank you in advance.
John
p.s.
Calibre is a great program.

12-23-2010, 01:59 PM	#1
geordiejohn Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 861762 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: London Device: Kindle 3	finding duplicates and sort author by surname ? hello i have added some Ed Mcbain books to Calibre,about 40 books and then i added about 30 more Ed Mcbain but i seem to have quite a lot of the same titles and i cannot see anyway of highlighting them and finding the duplicates,is there an easy way of doing this please as it is hurting my eyes now trying to scan them all ? also when i add a book it puts it to Calibre with the format-Ed Mcbain and i would like the surname first,i have had to change every book one at a time so the surname is first and then the title,once again is there an easy way to do this please ? i did see something about tweak but i am afraid i dont seem to be clever enough to do it that way. thank you in advance. John p.s. Calibre is a great program.