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MashaT · 01-10-2022, 05:37 PM

I have books in a series folder. The books have the same main name and additional separate title for each volume. I put main name into title and I put volume title along with volume # to subtitle field

Example: title "86- Eighty Six", subtitle "Vol 7 Death, be Not Proud" (series index #7)

However, every volume before vol 7 was deleted and I realized it was due to same title and same file format (epub). For some reason difference in subtitle and series index was not enough to prevent those books being deleted as duplicates.

Is there any way to deal with this other than adding volume number directly into title or disabling duplicate function entirely? Perhaps configure duplicate function somehow to take into account series index and/or subtitle not just title and file format?

01-10-2022, 05:37 PM	#1
MashaT Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2021 Device: KOBO GLO HD	Calibre deletes "duplicates" of different books because of same title I have books in a series folder. The books have the same main name and additional separate title for each volume. I put main name into title and I put volume title along with volume # to subtitle field Example: title "86- Eighty Six", subtitle "Vol 7 Death, be Not Proud" (series index #7) However, every volume before vol 7 was deleted and I realized it was due to same title and same file format (epub). For some reason difference in subtitle and series index was not enough to prevent those books being deleted as duplicates. Is there any way to deal with this other than adding volume number directly into title or disabling duplicate function entirely? Perhaps configure duplicate function somehow to take into account series index and/or subtitle not just title and file format?