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Originally Posted by kiwidude
And quite frankly if it is just you and me showing any interest in the idea here it won't be very high in my priority list to implement it. I would love more people to comment on whether they think it is a flawed/bad idea, or they would love to see it in Calibre. I won't be offended if they think it's a rubbish idea - on the contrary it would save me many hours of wasted effort.
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I think it is an absolutely fantastic idea.
I can imagine that an initial search of each book against all other books would take forever and a bit, but with large libraries users could do this in batches (marking all already checked ebooks) or let it run overnight.
The real challenge would be inventing user interface that would offer user groups of identified duplicated letting user accept or reject merging.
Also "fuzziness" of the search would have to be carefully balanced so it finds duplicates where author name and title differs somewhat Stephen_King_-_Pet_cemetery_The vs. King_s._-_The_pet_cemetery and yet it doesn't come up with too many false positives.