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Originally Posted by unboggling
@kacir, so you use just one library for everything?, do a pass (requiring months maybe?) to work by author from A to Z, meanwhile adding whatever you download, then start over with A-Z iteratively forever? Or do you eventually move the "clear" ones to a Clear Library?
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I have one library. Well, there are a few others, but they have been used mainly to import some books in bulk and then dump the books to the main library.
So. I have one library. Every day I sit down and clean up some books, going by authors. So I select some book with the "Clean" column set to No , press Alt+A to see what I have from this author. Then I do a search for just author surname. I inspect the books, check metadata, download missing metadata. (I use the automatic download of metadata and/or covers a lot.) Then I set the "Clean" column to Yes.
When I am adding some new books (that happens quite rarely nowadays, I am too busy organising what I already have ;-) It took me years and years of hoarding to create my "Kitchen sink" mess ;-) ) I just have a look at the author and see if I already have a book. So for every newly added book I check metadata and do a general cleanup / merge, so that I do not have to go through it again. Even so, the number of clean books is growing steadily.
I have PocketBook reader that can read many e-book file formats, even if they are not formatted well. PocketBook replaces most of the formatting with my pre-set values. I am also quite tolerant. I am not going to spend hours reformatting the book just to read it once - I have been reading ebooks for more than 10 years and at the beginning there were very few well formatted books available. I mean bold, italics, header styles ...
So I am usually not very keen on spending considerable time cleaning particular book/file.