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BetterRed · 08-11-2018, 07:19 PM

@kgwdc - I import 'new' books into an Intake library, then after rectifying any anomalies in author name and title values I use the Find Duplicates (plugin)->Library Duplicates tool to identify duplicates in the <Target> library. I then move the non-duplicate books to the =<Target> library using Copy to Library. I then work out what I want to do with the duplicates - discard, replace, merge etc.

I 'borrowed' the Intake library approach from a couple of MR members when I was doing my initial library load of ~30,000 books where I had quite a lot of duplicates. It worked well in that situation, so I've stuck with it.

But now I'm typically adding far fewer books - couple of dozen at most. And the number of duplicates is very low. I wouldn't add all 900 books to my Intake library, I do it in batches of 50 or 100 books - but that's a personal work pattern choice.

Added: also see Post #6 in Syncing Calibre from Baen

BR

08-11-2018, 07:19 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,685 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@kgwdc - I import 'new' books into an Intake library, then after rectifying any anomalies in author name and title values I use the Find Duplicates (plugin)->Library Duplicates tool to identify duplicates in the <Target> library. I then move the non-duplicate books to the =<Target> library using Copy to Library. I then work out what I want to do with the duplicates - discard, replace, merge etc. I 'borrowed' the Intake library approach from a couple of MR members when I was doing my initial library load of ~30,000 books where I had quite a lot of duplicates. It worked well in that situation, so I've stuck with it. But now I'm typically adding far fewer books - couple of dozen at most. And the number of duplicates is very low. I wouldn't add all 900 books to my Intake library, I do it in batches of 50 or 100 books - but that's a personal work pattern choice. Added: also see Post #6 in Syncing Calibre from Baen BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-11-2018 at 07:24 PM.