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Originally Posted by mbovenka
If titles and authors are indeed *identical*, dup checking on import will catch them. Create a new library, set, like yonkyjunior says, 'automerge' to 'overwrite' and copy all books in your existing library to the new one.
Duplicates will merge automatically.
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This is what I ended up doing, though it meant rebuilding the entire library and redownloading meta data. and "identical" since cources cannot agree on naming conventions. Importing the library with the metadata failed because that got me back to exactly what I had before, with duplicate books listed as separate entries.
C S Lewis, C S Lewis, Clive S Lewis, Clive Staples Lews, Clive S. Lewis. It's even worse for JRR Tolkien since JRR, J R R, J. R. R are all frequent variants, along with various random seeming expansions of his names.
To say nothing of the disaster that is marking an editor as the author which ads many more variations to try to sort through. I must have seen 50 variation on the tags for books edited by George RR Martin.
Heck, even with Jane Austen I had one book with the author tagged simply as "Austen" one a J. Austen, and one tagged as J Austin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Since the metadata doesn't modify the original book, I essentially had to start all over from the original sources)