This plugin will help you to identify duplicate authors, titles, formats, series, publishers, tags and identifiers in your calibre libraries.
- Duplicate authors are where you have multiple variants of an author due to spacing, punctuation, spelling differences, initials or word order. e.g. Kevin Anderson / Kevin J. Anderson / Anderson, Kevin
- Duplicate titles are where you have multiple book entries with either the same or varying titles. e.g. Martian Way / The Martian Way / The Martian Way (2010)
- Duplicate formats are where the contents of a particular format like ePub are binary identical to another in your library
The plugin offers a variety of matching algorithms for finding possible groups of duplicate candidates.
If duplicates are found, you are presented the results with the ability to resolve the variations (e.g. by deleting or merging). You can also exclude from future duplicate comparisons.
Main Features:- Searches either your entire library or respecting any search restriction set at the time you Find Duplicates.
- Choose your desired combination of title and author matching from any of "identical", "similar", "soundex", "fuzzy" or "ignore" algorithms.
- Choose alternative algorithms such as matching identifiers or binary comparison.
- View the results either one group at a time, or showing all duplicate candidates at once using highlighting to show the groups.
- When doing author duplicate searches (ignore title), optionally highlight the authors under consideration in the tag browser for ease of renaming
- Sort the result groups either by title/author (default) or by the size of the group
- Fine tune the soundex algorithm options to make them "fuzzier" or more explicit matching.
- Optionally include the languages field when comparing titles, so intentionally using the same book title in different languages does not show as duplicates.
- Optionally have binary duplicate formats automatically removed from your library when doing a binary comparison.
- Mark the current group as exempt or all groups as exempt from appearing as duplicates again
- Review your duplicate exemptions with the opportunity to reverse the exemption allowing duplicate consideration again
- Exempt either individual books (title searches) or authors (author searches)
- Clicking the clear search button, setting a different restriction or choosing an explicit Clear duplicate results menu option will exit duplicate search mode.
- Switching libraries or restarting Calibre will also clear any duplicate search results. Your exemptions will be remember and are stored per library.
- Customize the keyboard shortcuts for a number of the menu options.
- Find metadata variations for authors, publishers, series and tags to eradicate unwanted duplicates with an alternative simplified UI to rename them.
- Find duplicates across multiple libraries, producing a report.
- When placed on the toolbar, clicking the toolbar button without duplicate groups displayed will display the Find Duplicates options dialog. When results are displayed, clicking on the button will move to the next result. Ctrl+click or shift+click to navigate to the previous result.
- Use delete key to remove entry from library list in cross library search options.
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