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Originally Posted by truth1ness
Sometimes I import books and Calibre finds that the new books are duplicates which is great and it asks me whether I want to import the books anyway. However, many times the new book is the one I want to keep but I see no option to keep the new one and delete the old one. I have to choose to import the new ones anyway then manually find all the duplicates which is pretty annoying.
If there is no way to do this could you add an option to "Keep newer" (in addition to the current "Keep older" and "Keep both"?
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truth1ness - I add books to a
NewBooks library, and I run calibre server against my
Main library.
I use the
[GUI PI] Find Duplicates->Find Library Duplicates feature to look for duplicates
For any duplicates I can look at the
NewBooks 'item' metadata via the calibre library manager and at the duplicate 'item' metadata in
Main via calibre server - if necessary I can do side-by-side compares of the content to determine which one is 'better'.
Yes -- I do have to 'find' the book in calibre server, either via its 'tag browser' or via its 'search box'. Yes -- it would be nice if the PI did all that for me, but I'm too lazy/old/incompetent to modify the PI myself. Besides I rarely get duplicates - maybe one in a couple of hundred.
After examining and resolving any duplicates I 'merge' items in
NewBooks into
Main via the copy to library feature - my setting will overwrite any duplicates.
BR