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BetterRed · 03-17-2015, 02:49 PM

@SimonMc - I'm not entirely sure what your question is. All of what you appear to want is doable.

FWIW I add books to a 'New Books' library. I then do whatever is necessary get the author and title correct. Then I use the Find Duplicates->Library Duplicates to determine if a new book is in the target library - if its not I move it to the new library, if it is I decide whether I want to add it to the existing book (I have Add books preferences set to merge).

Find Duplicates is an Optional plugin

For merging try this, you may want to use a test library to see if it does what you want

Mark the two book records you want to 'merge'
Show marked books
Sort the two book records so that the one with the metadata you want to keep is on top
Select the two book records
Merge them via appropriate the Edit metadata->Merge book records option.

You may need to Add the Mark Books tool to a Toolbar/Menu if its not there

A Book record is a line in the Book List - corresponds to a lowest level (leaf) folder in the library/author/book tree that calibre uses to store book format files. And for each Book record there is a row in the book table of the metadata database.

As theducks wrote a Book record can contain multiple format files (epub, pdf, mobi, lit, txt etc) but only one of each type.

BR

03-17-2015, 02:49 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,744 Karma: 30237526 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@SimonMc - I'm not entirely sure what your question is. All of what you appear to want is doable. FWIW I add books to a 'New Books' library. I then do whatever is necessary get the author and title correct. Then I use the Find Duplicates->Library Duplicates to determine if a new book is in the target library - if its not I move it to the new library, if it is I decide whether I want to add it to the existing book (I have Add books preferences set to merge). Find Duplicates is an Optional plugin For merging try this, you may want to use a test library to see if it does what you want Mark the two book records you want to 'merge' Show marked books Sort the two book records so that the one with the metadata you want to keep is on top Select the two book records Merge them via appropriate the Edit metadata->Merge book records option. You may need to Add the Mark Books tool to a Toolbar/Menu if its not there A Book record is a line in the Book List - corresponds to a lowest level (leaf) folder in the library/author/book tree that calibre uses to store book format files. And for each Book record there is a row in the book table of the metadata database. As theducks wrote a Book record can contain multiple format files (epub, pdf, mobi, lit, txt etc) but only one of each type. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-17-2015 at 03:01 PM.