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Originally Posted by Starson17
Your apostrophe issue is a simple overspecification of the search. Just remove all but one important word from the title, leave the author and you will find many matches. Do the same for authors - just leave the last name. It's not Calibre that needs to strip the punctuation, it's the various data sources. Removing punctuation on the Calibre side will cause more search failures, not less, because the data sources have the punctuation and the matches will fail.
To do this on the Calibre side, it would need to muck with the contents of the author and title before the search request was sent to each data source. That might help in some situations, but you wouldn't be able to see what you were searching for. If I put the correct author in, and Calibre searched for something else, I'd be annoyed.
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I assumed the database was held on the Calibre side rather than having to go to an external server so I guess there's not much you can do apart from request a better interface. You could perhaps have an intermediary database to store the name of the file, along with the final book name and author chosen by the user. Now if a file name appears you could see if it's in the database and whether more than 90% (for example) users chose this book and title then return those details. You wouldn't have to store every book in the database but just those that are often looked up - the idea is to remove as much of the manual work as possible.
This could be done just for those books which weren't matched using your current method. Alternatively it could be done as the first pass which might mean much faster retrieval of the data.
You mentioned entering a library of 14k books so even if only 5% of these books needed manually adjusting this would still mean 700 books need adjusting.
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If these were the same book in different formats then you could have handled it by having the If books with similar titles and authors found, merge the new files automatically feature checked under Preferences - Add/Save - Adding books tab when adding books. Then all those various formats would be in one "book" and you would just need to update the metadata once for all formats.
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Perhaps but then you have to remember that most users haven't a clue about all these different options and nor do they want to learn some arcane programming language to use the software. I think it's great such options exist but I just can't see why a user needs to use them when the program could sort much of this out with a little fuzzy logic.