MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Duplicate Detection for "Add Books" is too weak

nurbles62 · 03-22-2020, 09:57 AM

calibre's duplicate detection when adding books is far, far too weak to ever allow it to automatically ignore or merge things it flags as duplicates. It appears to me that only the titles are considered, but I'm not convinced it is performing an exact match on the titles, either.

Regardless, far, far too many short titles are use by different authors for different books and "Add Books" always marks them INCORRECTLY as duplicates.

I wish we could have at least a couple simple options to control this (so that folks who like it like this [if there are any]) can keep it: include author match would be the primary feature new option and would resolve most issues.

To be fancier, ways to handle multiple authors, title patterns, and different actions for exact matches and "near"/"possible" patches would all be nice.

Or maybe there is already a plug-in that repairs this functionality? Is that even possible? If the developer(s) reading this, please, PLEASE consider improving this feature!

03-22-2020, 09:57 AM	#1
nurbles62 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: Kindle for Samsung Tablets	Duplicate Detection for "Add Books" is too weak calibre's duplicate detection when adding books is far, far too weak to ever allow it to automatically ignore or merge things it flags as duplicates. It appears to me that only the titles are considered, but I'm not convinced it is performing an exact match on the titles, either. Regardless, far, far too many short titles are use by different authors for different books and "Add Books" always marks them INCORRECTLY as duplicates. I wish we could have at least a couple simple options to control this (so that folks who like it like this [if there are any]) can keep it: include author match would be the primary feature new option and would resolve most issues. To be fancier, ways to handle multiple authors, title patterns, and different actions for exact matches and "near"/"possible" patches would all be nice. Or maybe there is already a plug-in that repairs this functionality? Is that even possible? If the developer(s) reading this, please, PLEASE consider improving this feature!