Thread: .Title & Unknown Author(s)
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Old 01-18-2012, 11:17 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by AndyW1691 View Post
I have had a Kindle 3 for almost a year and built up a modest collection of e-books on the device. I also created a few collections to help organise the books. As the number of books is still growing I installed Calibre v0.8.35 on my Mac (OSX v10.6.8). Everything appeared to go well with no errors. I was able to import the Kindle's books into Calibre and export other books from Calibre to the Kindle.

While looking through the library of books I noticed that I had duplicate entries for some books. The duplicate entries all have the book title starting with a dot "." and the Author(s) field contains 'Unknown'. The size (MB) field for the titles starting with the dot contains "<0.1" whereas it is something greater than 0.1 for the entry with the proper title and author. For example:

Title Author(s) Date Size (MB) Publisher Published
Old Nathan David Drake 13 Jan 2012 0.3 Baen Oct 1991
.Old Nathan Unknown 13 Jan 2012 <0.1

Can someone tell me what these entries are? Can I remove them from the library?

Andy
You have a mess on your hands.

When you imported, you probably did not match the import template to the books brought into Calibre by File name.

Try the "Find Duplicates" Plugin
If you only have 1 format, things get easier. Delete (using Calibre) the extra (wrong) title.
If you have multiple formats, you will want to use the Merge books feature.
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