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Originally Posted by Beemerang
Hi All,
I am brand-new to Cailbre and still trying to get to grips with this feature rich program.
I have imported several thousand ebooks into Calibre but have discovered that there are duplicates of several books. I located and installed the "Remove Duplicates" plugin and after running it, it presents me with a virtual library containing the duplicates (apparently).
Should I then delete all the books that appear in this subset or leave one of them?
Secondly, could someone provide me with some guidance on using the merge feature? I have the same titles in different formats and I am assuming that this is the feature I will need to use of I wish to retain only one format?
Apologies if this is addressed somewhere in the forum, I did sesearch but could not find anything that answers this for me.
Thanks!
Beem
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Beemerang - AFAIK Find Duplicates doesn't create a Virtual Library.
What it does is to present groups of 2 or more book line-items that might contain the same book - I find it easier to look at each group at individually rather than altogether
Its up to you as to which book line-items you keep, merge, discard etc.
If you don't want a book-line item then delete it with the Del key
The merge function can be used to put different formats together so that they share the same meta data. So if you have Dickens Bleak House in MOBI and PDF as separate book line-items then you could merge them so that the MOBI and PDF formats are together in the one book line-item.
When Merging its the line item that's first in the list that will be 'kept', if the one I want is not at the top I change the sort order so that it is at the top- if I have to force it then I stick a value like '!first' into tags and sort on it - F2 on a cell in the book list will open it up for editing.
If you have a MOBI and a PDF in the same book line-item and you don't want the PDF, you can right click the PDF in the Book details and select Delete or hit Alt/Del and select PDF in the list.
Hope that helps a bit
BR