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TheMadGuy · 10-12-2022, 01:11 PM

@kiwidude
First of all: Thanks for this AddOn as it helped me a lot in the past.

I am not sure if the problem is now the new Calibre-Version (working on Win10 for the first time with Calibre 6.6) or a reason of your Tool that it does not work as well anymore as it did in the past (with former calibre versions on former windows versions).

I always use the "similar" button for research (length of 99) and am confused:
It finds similarities as "Biggle, Lloyd" and "Biggle jr., Lloyd"
but it niehter finds "Pohl, Frederic" and "Pohl, Frederik"
nor "Hohlbein, Wolfgang" and "Hohlbein,Wolfgang"
nor "Koontz, Dean" and "Koontz, Dean R."

So it is a little bit difficult for me to understand how such close similarities (one letter, one empty space) are not found, but the less similar +/- "jr." always is.

I also tried the fuzzy as well as the soundex once, but the results then are far away from reality.

So could you explain me any possibility to finally find those quite similar one wrong spellings with your tool? Or will there be an update of it to cover them, too?

My only alternative is: If I recognize one of them, I have to search for the wrong spelling manually and then using "search and replace" for the authors section. This might be a way, but I am quite sure that there are much more I never will recognize myself.

10-12-2022, 01:11 PM	#986
TheMadGuy Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Trekstor 3.0	@kiwidude First of all: Thanks for this AddOn as it helped me a lot in the past. I am not sure if the problem is now the new Calibre-Version (working on Win10 for the first time with Calibre 6.6) or a reason of your Tool that it does not work as well anymore as it did in the past (with former calibre versions on former windows versions). I always use the "similar" button for research (length of 99) and am confused: It finds similarities as "Biggle, Lloyd" and "Biggle jr., Lloyd" but it niehter finds "Pohl, Frederic" and "Pohl, Frederik" nor "Hohlbein, Wolfgang" and "Hohlbein,Wolfgang" nor "Koontz, Dean" and "Koontz, Dean R." So it is a little bit difficult for me to understand how such close similarities (one letter, one empty space) are not found, but the less similar +/- "jr." always is. I also tried the fuzzy as well as the soundex once, but the results then are far away from reality. So could you explain me any possibility to finally find those quite similar one wrong spellings with your tool? Or will there be an update of it to cover them, too? My only alternative is: If I recognize one of them, I have to search for the wrong spelling manually and then using "search and replace" for the authors section. This might be a way, but I am quite sure that there are much more I never will recognize myself.