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Originally Posted by drMerry
And the auto-merge function.
In my case it is less work to mark books not to merge than to select each group and than merge them.
It would be nice to have an option that could do (one of):
* merge all groups (separate off-course)
* merge current group
* merge all but current group
* merge all groups - only if type is different (this would merge pdf and epub for example, but not a epub,pdf and pdf)
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I'm intentionally leaving merging out of scope of this plugin for now. A few pages ago in this thread Starson and I briefly touched on the subject for a couple of posts. I think everyone is agreed that it would be nice to have a more intelligent/flexible gui merge option in Calibre. I don't want to attempt to offer any automerge in this plugin as it is too fraught with complications about who merges into who when you have mixtures of formats and metadata being populated in the books in the group.
Instead I would see a separate menu option on the merge menu which for your selected rows comes up with an "automerge" type suggestion as your starting point in the gui. You would be able to launch the viewer for when you have conflicting formats to decide which you want to keep, decide what to do with the metadata etc. As Starson has said the existing merge options would stil exist, this one would just be additional to give you a gui allowing you to preview what the effect would be and tune it. I have way too many things on my todo list already but it could be done as a standalone plugin by someone as a starting point.