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Originally Posted by dustyp
Is there any way to delete duplicates?
My library is massive and shows that it contains well over a thousand duplicates.
To show duplicates and then delete the unwanted books will take ages. To be able to highlight or mark all except the first copy would help enormously.
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I had a few thousand duplicates that where simply author either John Doe or Doe, John.
Sometimes different format of ebook, sometimes not.
I removed them in one go by doing the following:
1) Create a new custom column, called it "fixing"
2) Search for all authors with a comma (author:"," )
3) Virtual library = current search
4) select all and bulk edit
5) Set "fixing" to something (I used "comma")
6) Open "Find Duplicates" and do a search (title = exact and author = similar)
7) sort by column "fixing"
8) Select all that have a value and delete.
Quickest method I could think of.