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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
title and author is used. If you want to manually match books simply right click on them in the device view and choose "match to library"
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Oh, I'm so ignorant, I should have expected this functionality and looked for it. Thank you so much!
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Originally Posted by davidfor
The match with "UUID" means that calibre has either previously matched the books and stored this in the metadata.calibre file, or that there is an id in the book that matches with an id in calibre. Odds are a book downloaded from Kobo directly to the device won't have a UUID that matches a book downloaded by other methods and added to the calibre library.
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Aaahhh that makes sense.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Otherwise, as Kovid said, the matching is on the title and the authors. These need to be an exact match. The extra stuff put in the titles by all the publishers and stores cause a problem with this. Plus the way Kobo handles multiple authors causes problems with the matching especially for sideloaded books.
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Good to know. I wonder what is different in the books in my library that have exact same author and title and no additional authors or silly info in the title (like 'Emma') but still don't match... extra spaces in the field or something?
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Originally Posted by davidfor
There have been a couple of recent threads on this where I made some suggestions on how to handle this. Beyond those suggestions, I haven't been able to come up with a way to improve the matching and have to manually match the books. After that, the books stay matched on each connection.
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Oops, I couldn't find those. Probably because I had no idea which search terms to use
I'll hunt them down and try stuff out and otherwise use the wonderful manual match option.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this to me!
