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Old 08-03-2017, 01:21 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by higgs View Post
There is a setting within the Adding books settings to auto-merge added books if they already exist, and can be set to overwrite existing formats.
I'm aware of it, but there are too many chances for error. For example, Calibre's first way of determining duplicates is title. I have an assortment of books that are entirely different books that simply happen to have the same title.

That option would be problematic here.
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