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Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele
I was wondering if there is a better way to merge different series into different anthologies all at once, as in selecting books A,B,C to anthology 1 and books D,E,F to anthology 2 in one step.
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Not really. There isn't a good way to have different selections in a library at once in Calibre. Closest is probably Reading List plugin.
Attempting to stack multiple merge operations is, IMO, more work than it's worth. Figuring out an UI, adding all the checking for if the books to merge are still valid,
explaining the more complicated UI, detecting/blocking/warning library changes with pending merges, etc etc etc.
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Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele
When I do this currently, I use the search
series:true OR comment:"Anthology containing:"
so I tell which anthologies I have already created. However, each time I merge a new series, I get sent back to the top of the list and have to resort by author to get back to where I left off.
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EM uses Calibre's Edit Metadata to edit the merged book's metadata. Added books go at the top of the library list and editing it moves selection and scrolls the list there. Current search and order shouldn't be changed, just current position and selection. I don't really want to skip the edit metadata step because that data feeds into the merged book.
I can, however, change EM to configurably re-selected the previously selected books again when Edit Metadata closes and the merge launches. Coming Soon.
Which of course would mean you'd instead have to go looking for your new merged book. I assume most users immediately after using the tool will be more interested in the output than the input, which is why it would be configurable and default to off.