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Nay. Read the first line of my post again.
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"Check me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key."
Wait, that's not right.
Check me if I'm wrong, but if ignore the title, then Find Duplicates will flag everything by "Steve Berry" and by "Berry, Steve", which is essentially the same as my doing a search for "authors:Berry". And in the event that the author fields were both "Berry, Steve" ignoring the title and searching for similar authors via FD would omit the "Berry, Steve" results entirely.
Don't get me wrong, I've gotten loads of use out of Find Duplicates (and no doubt will continue to do so). My question was fundamentally whether there was a way for the plug-in to recognize the two example titles as duplicates. The answer to that appears to be "No." Such is life. As I say, Find Duplicates is meeting 95% of my library management needs, so I'm really and truly not bitching. I just needed confirmation that my inability to do that particular search was because it was impossible, not because I was merely doing it wrong.
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And keeping your titles that way is *not* the recommended practise with calibre - use the series column for it's intended purpose. If you want to control how titles are sorted on your device/when exported, look into metadata plugboards and save to disk templates.
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Because I respect your input, I'm actually considering your counsel (even though changing my filing system would take me weeks). So please take my inquiry in the spirit of sincere curiosity (which is how it's meant) and not defensive sarcasm (which is how it could be interpreted): is the reason my filing system is not recommended because it screws up Calibre, or because it screws up plug-ins, or simply for aesthetic reasons?