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Old 04-01-2016, 01:42 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by emmgee View Post
The way that Calibre can remember which books it has imported without deleting is exactly the way that it detects duplicates when you select "Add books from directories, including sub-directories". It reads through all the books in your library and reports on the duplicates. It could just as easily read through all the books and add any books that are flagged as duplicates.
But that is a stupid idea.

Because first it would need to do 99% of the work importing the book again, in order to determine if it is a duplicate.
And you just proposed doing that in a constant loop, to boot.

You REALLY didn't think this through...
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