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A specific file format might be identical - but the other metadata may frequently not be. You might have variations of the author and title - which caused you to not identify it as a duplicate in the very first place remember!
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I thought this was the reason for binary duplicate search- regardless of the metadata, it does a bit-by-bit comparison of the actual file, no? Maybe this is my confusion.
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Even if title and author match - one of those records may have other formats on it which you want to keep.
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Right, I would want to keep all the formats, just not books with identical formats that are also identical books.
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One or both may have different metadata downloads done to them, with differing covers, descriptions etc.
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Can't you do a comparison of ALL data, including metadata? The duplicates I have are 100% duplicates. Same books, same metadata. If I could get rid of those in batch and then hand-delete the handful left over that are the same books with different metadata, it would be quite useful...
Sorry with all the questions, it seems like this probably won't be implemented, but at this point I'm just curious...