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Originally Posted by kiwidude
So what I ended up doing was almost starting again by having multiple libraries - the initial one that is the "partially clean mess", and my "clean one" that books get migrated into that is intended to contain only books that are cleaned up. Note that if I was installing Calibre for the first time today I would not have two libraries for this purpose - it is only the fact that I had already invested so many months of effort into partially cleaning the initial one that I have kept it.
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I took a bit different approach.
I have created a new user column, called "Clear".
I go through my "Kitchen sink and everything else mess imported from God-Knows-Where" Calibre Library and I am going Author by author, and correcting metadata, gathering covers, descriptions, series info (Series are extremely important metadata), merging duplicates, examining what version to ditch during merge (*). Then I mark the book[s] "Clear".
I use your plugins heavily in the process.
(*) I never delete formats I find "not useful" at the moment. Experience taught me that sooner or later you are going to get a device that supports different bunch of formats, and disk space is *SO* cheap nowadays (well, not if you collect HD movies, but 500kB *.lit file it costs very little to store, Just-In-Case)