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BetterRed · 04-08-2016, 06:27 PM

@emmgee - what I and many others do for adding new books is something like the following

import (add) books into a "New Books" library *
do any necessary adjustments to basic metadata - ie Author, Title, ISBN and perhaps Series
use the Find-Duplicates plugin->Find library duplicates feature to check for duplicates in the main library
if I want to see details of what's in the main library I start calibre-server against the main library and access it via a browser.
the books which are not duplicates I move to the main library, using Copy to Library (delete after copy).
I resolve the duplicates either by
- removing the book from the New Books library,
- manually adding the format file (or replacing the existing format file) in the book in the main library - I do that by dragging the file out of the New Books book folder, and dropping it onto the relevant Book Details panel in the main library - calibre always does this as a copy. Then I remove the book from the New Books library
At the end of the process I should have an empty New Books library

BR

*I normally do that either via Windows Send To, or by by dragging the format files from my file manager into the Book List.

04-08-2016, 06:27 PM	#14
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,836 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@emmgee - what I and many others do for adding new books is something like the following import (add) books into a "New Books" library * do any necessary adjustments to basic metadata - ie Author, Title, ISBN and perhaps Series use the Find-Duplicates plugin->Find library duplicates feature to check for duplicates in the main library if I want to see details of what's in the main library I start calibre-server against the main library and access it via a browser. the books which are not duplicates I move to the main library, using Copy to Library (delete after copy). I resolve the duplicates either by removing the book from the New Books library, manually adding the format file (or replacing the existing format file) in the book in the main library - I do that by dragging the file out of the New Books book folder, and dropping it onto the relevant Book Details panel in the main library - calibre always does this as a copy. Then I remove the book from the New Books library At the end of the process I should have an empty New Books library BR *I normally do that either via Windows Send To, or by by dragging the format files from my file manager into the Book List.