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Originally Posted by Starson17
I was vaguely thinking of some sort of "Next Book" function with a display (Highlighted? Appears in dialog popup window? Is listed first in a list with other match members?) of the "Book under consideration."
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One way to do this that would live conveniently within calibre's existing capabilities would be to have (yet another) custom column (integer) that is used only for displaying duplicates. When you say 'next book', the CC would first be cleared, then filled in with a number generated from the union of the sets. Number 0 would be the book under examination. The remaining numbers could be derived from several places, such as the number of sets a given book and the book under examination both appear in, or could simply be a counter. This implementation permits easily showing the books in the library view, and also permits sorting and searching while being able to recover the original view.
Hmmm... Perhaps making it a search restriction would be even better. That would facilitate subsearches and subsorts while permitting going back to the original order.
I am suspicious of building a navigation dialog box. My feeling is that there would be a lot of pressure to make it as capable as the library view, including all the metadata edit features. On the other hand, if the dialog shows minimal information but is capable of scrolling the library view to the book (in effect, searching for id:nnnn with highlight turned on), then the pressure might be avoided.