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Old 07-24-2019, 06:45 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
That's where an Intake library comes in handy. The books are loaded into that special purpose library. After cleaning up metadata, covers, etc., they are copied into the main calibre library (copy and delete).

Locate the directory where your current calibre library directory exists and create a folder called Intake in that directory. Then use the Switch/create library option to create a new library at that location. See the attached image.

Please note that you can call that library anything you want. Intake was my personal choice.
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But, you don't have to co-locate libraries, e.g. you might keep your main libraries on an HDD and your Intake on an SSD.

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Using the Find Duplicates plugin to check for library duplicates comes in handy as well to keep you from adding a book you already have.
I use the Find Duplicates->Library duplicates to find potential duplicate books in the target library, and I use the CalibreSpy plugin to look at the the duplicate book in the target library - i.e. all its metadata and the formats.

There are a couple of things I sometimes need to do after I move a book from Intake. So I also tag new books with "!New" - via the Add books->Adding Actions setting. In the target library I have a (tags:"!New") VL.

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