MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Question about recent change when adding potential duplicates

Zetmolm · 03-31-2012, 09:25 AM

You cannot make the message itself much clearer, but I agree with FizzyWater that the fact that now authors are shown can be a bit misleading.

The problem is perhaps caused by the fact that only one author is shown. Is that the author of the duplicate title found in the database? Is it the author of the book you are adding? It would be a great improvement if you could show both, i.e. when a duplicate title is found, show something like this:

Existing: <title> by <author_1>; adding <title> by <author_2>

I know that the Find Duplicates plugin does something like that, but not while adding books. It would be great to have such a feature while adding books.

03-31-2012, 09:25 AM	#3
Zetmolm Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 2362786 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: PocketBook Verse Pro Colour	You cannot make the message itself much clearer, but I agree with FizzyWater that the fact that now authors are shown can be a bit misleading. The problem is perhaps caused by the fact that only one author is shown. Is that the author of the duplicate title found in the database? Is it the author of the book you are adding? It would be a great improvement if you could show both, i.e. when a duplicate title is found, show something like this: Existing: <title> by <author_1>; adding <title> by <author_2> I know that the Find Duplicates plugin does something like that, but not while adding books. It would be great to have such a feature while adding books.