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Originally Posted by droopy
About Step G. What's the quickest/best way to bulk-delete the "formats" for a group of books at once?
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Right Click -> Remove books -> Remove all formats from selected books
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I love this. I was gonna create a CSV for each separate library. But your method is much nicer.
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It's still a good idea to create separate CSV files for each backup/archived library to keep on Google Drive. This just gives you more options for searching/browsing your archived books.
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Hopefully someone can say how to do this.
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Assuming menu options haven't changed significantly from 3.38 (on Windows 7)
Preferences -> Adding books -> Adding actions -> Auto-merge added books if they already exist ->
a. Ignore duplicate incoming formats
b. Overwrite existing duplicate formats
If you're copying from backup library to original for merging, option a. keeps the copy from original library (if it exists) and option b. keeps the copy from the backup library.
With that said, I don't know how metadata gets handled when merging. Tags, etc. are likely fine but long text such as comments might get appended. It might be better to just delete the empty entries from the original library first before copying from the backup library.