Thread: Add'l formats for existing book(s)
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Old 03-16-2010, 12:54 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
I began working on this option a few weeks ago. I stopped because it had some overlap with the option I wrote to automatically add new books to existing entries, and I wasn't sure if Kovid would implement that option, or if he did, how much it would be changed.

Now that he has added the previous one, I need to understand his changes. Each time he rewrites one of my efforts, I learn a lot. I currently have a "Merge" button and a right click "Merge" option implemented into the interface, and I have it collecting all except the first selected record into a list in a format that's exactly compatible with the way that I merged a new book into an existing record (after I had matched the new book by author title to the existing book). In theory, that's almost there, but I've had to go a step backward, now that Kovid has rewritten some of my code. My "Merge " code is in the 0.6.44 code, while his changes are in 0.6.45, so I need to reconcile the conflicts, fix anything necessary, then add the final steps.
Thank you for the update. I appreciate your authorship of this feature, and that you're expanding it. Additionally, I appreciate Calibre being written in the first place (many thanks to Kovid and anyone else who worked on it). I still have plenty of books with incorrect meta-data waiting for hand corrections. Being able to merge books would just be highly useful "some day".

Thanks so much for your hard work!
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