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Originally Posted by Rellwood
Save to Disk- what exactly is this, and why does it seem that everyone is creating plugboards to use it? Is this just a way of getting the books into a reading device? Or is it a way to save the library and metadata so that later when I get it in my head to "make it better" I am not left weeding through thousands of files in my recycle bin.
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As others have said, you probably don't need this at all, unless your device is not supported.
Although some people use save-to-disk
because they dislike using calibre to organize their books, and only use calibre to convert.
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Automerge- I really, really need to understand this better. I read that the choices of overwriting, ignoring, and creating a new record indicate the "format" of the book, but what about the metadata? What do I need to do to blend books together to get the metadata to merge? Has anyone come up with a plug-in that allows the users to choose per column what happens? If not, then this would be an excellent feature. If some formats of columns won't blend, then which order do I copy them to get the metadata of a specific one to populate, or leave alone. This will help me to weed down the library with 23,000 books that are basically various copies of 1800 books.
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I don't believe there is any way to choose per-column, but the first-selected book will be the "better" metadata AND book formats -- see the options under Edit Metadata ==> Merge selected book records.
The Find Duplicates plugin can help you sort through your current library and deal with duplicates, it is somewhat more powerful than Automerge.
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Finally, am I mistaken or did the newest version have a feature that allows copying or importing libraries to be done with a hard link, thereby making it quicker? If this is true, then were do I find out how to use it. I have spent hours waiting on my libraries to copy or import.
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Nope -- if you are using the latest calibre, you already have those speed improvements.
They only affect moving libraries on the same HDD.
As BetterRed said, moving/copying files generally requires copying all that data, byte by byte.
It is possible to "cheat", if you only want one copy, and you don't want to cross physical HDDs when moving. calibre did recently gain some optimizations for that, but...
If you aren't seeing any speed improvements, that is because it doesn't apply to what you are doing.
NB: When adding books, calibre creates a second copy, then later deletes the original -- this is for security purposes.