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Originally Posted by lbutlr
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)
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That is why quite a few people use a Intake library. An ebook is imported to the Intake library, the metadata is updated and massaged to match your standards, the modified metadata is added to the ebook and only then is it moved to the main calibre library. For the examples you gave, I would use bulk metadata edit to set the author name/sort for consistency.
A pain if you already have a large collection but once you have gone through the pain, it makes for a much cleaner and easier to search library.