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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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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Try this: Download new books via the Kindle app then in Calibre select Add books > Add books from directories, including sub-directories (Multiple books per directory, assumes every ebook is a different book).
Calibre then does what you apparently think is a stupid idea. A pop-up appears that says "Reading metadata and adding to library" and presents a progress bar and titles that it is adding to the library.
Then it shows you the duplicates it found and asks if you really want to add them. If you click on "Select none", the duplicates are unchecked. Click "OK" and the non-duplicates are added.
My "stupid idea" is that since this functionality is already built in, it should be a fairly simple thing to change it this way:
Create an option under "Add books" that reads "Add new books". User clicks this option and Calibre does the same action as above but it assumes that the user does not want to add duplicates, only new books.
I hope you find this clarification less stupid. BTW, there are no loops involved.