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Old 04-29-2011, 08:29 PM   #218
mehetabelo
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I had another thought concerning finding duplicates, something I just ran across doing some normal cleanup. Some books, when imported merge the series and title information together.
So it's possible a book such as Dragon Champion by EE Knight, Age of Fire Book [1]
can show up as:
Age of Fire 1: Dragon Champion or
Dragon Champion Book 1 in the Age of Fire saga.

I know for a fact that the first option does not show up with the duplicate detector when it exists. Now, as with the earlier thought with the title/author switch, it is a partly a matter of metadata not being clean. However, with this the title may not seem wrong with a general scan, and it would be difficult for the QC plugin to find something like this.

The point is that at some point in the future it may be a good addition to somehow match use both title and series in a scan for duplicates. While not even close to a top priority, it is a way for duplicates to go undetected, and I figure'd I'd mention it.

Of course, anyone can use 'ignore title' to scan through this sort of stuff, but when I personally do that, I come up with over 700 matches. I'm probably just going overboard with thoughts, considering all the plugins you work on kiwi, but I'm more than willing to throw out stupid ass ideas.

I am a little OC about things, and I want my database to be so damn clean it's impossible without extreme time spent checking the 50,000 books line by line. Up until a few days ago I had managed to not talk on the boards even though I've been a member of mobilereads for years, now... I can't keep my mouth shut it seems.

Last edited by mehetabelo; 04-29-2011 at 10:57 PM. Reason: Fixing note
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