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Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

Originally Posted by Starson17

This isn't a priority for me, but I don't know why it can't be added to the code or by plugin. I can imagine a button on the single metadata fetch dialog screen that locates the ISBN in one or more formats. Note that Calibre has multiple formats stored under each ebook record, so I do have different ISBN stored together in a single record. I could keep them as separate ebook records, but don't. I assume you realize that ISBN has priority in metadata fetching for Calibre, otherwise it uses author/title.

This one is a big deal for me. Right now the process is:

1) Drag file into calibre
2) Open file in Acrobat or whatever
3) Visually search for the ISBN number
4) Copy to clipboard
5) Edit meta-info in calibre
6) Paste into ISBN field
7) Search for meta-info
8) Save

This is a long slow process, especially if you have thousands of files. I just won't go through it...I'd rather spend the time to write software to do it for me.

This is done with tags. There are lots of threads on this issue. With saved searches, it's even easier. This is of zero interest to me.

The tags aren't easily extend-able, tho, right? As far as I can tell, the tags are fixed, which means I have to hi-jack one of them. Can I add my own custom field....that would be very nice, but I didn't see a way to do this.

This might be nice. I do have space on my screen, but it's not an option I would care greatly about. It's the kind of thing I'd need to try out to decide if I liked it.

After working this way in the software I use for managing MP3, I have found it to be a huge UX bonus / time saver. I think it is one of those things that you won't realize how nice it is until after you try it, then you won't ever want to go back. The more you can reduce UI clicks / menu / nav to get the most common stuff done, the better.

This would be easy to implement. You'd have to define a "duplicate." I wrote code that does a fuzzy match on title when adding ebooks (to allow new formats to go directly into existing records). I did not do a fuzzy match on author. When author matched exactly and title fuzzy matched, I considered the two to be the same book and added the new book to the existing record.

If the only "duplicate" you locate is one with the same ISBN, it would not be of value to me. I have a command line search that will find duplicates in the SQL database, but usually, I just open metadata.db with SQLiteSpy, and call up my saved duplicate search to find dupes. I agree it's not as easy as locating them within Calibre. I considered asking Chaley, (or doing it myself) to add SQL searching into the search line. That would let you save a duplicate SQL search.

Would love to have this, since I know I have a ton of dupes, and would like to clean it up. I know I can hack SQLLite itself, but was hoping for something inside the app itself.

Funny, I thought it was.

The main pane has a horizontal scrollbar. Below that, I don't see anything that allows me to re-size. If I open the cover-flow, same thing...no re-sizing.

The meta-info pane at the bottom shows the cover image, and has text with a vertical scrollbar, but if you were able to drag that and re-size it up, the vert scrollbar could go away, and make it easier to read.