Adding Books: Duplicates detected - can this be by Binary Compare rather than Title?

[cgrapski]

I was wondering if there is a way - of if not could it be considered as a future option - that when adding new books - when Calibre says there are duplicates - for this to be set to check for duplicates by binary compare rather than title?

When it is by title - it is often misleading - as there are many reasons that there may be the same title - and there is no way to compare to verify if it is a genuine duplicate at that time.

So I may have two files with the same filename - but they may not be the same book: they may be different versions of the same title, they may be different editions of the same title, they may be different books with the same or similar title, etc - but there is no way to know this unless added - and then checked.

Whereas if this could be set to binary compare the list of duplicates can be actual rather than just possible duplicates.

This would really be helpful when importing a large number of books - when being able to exclude the actual file duplicate from being added could save a great deal of time - without possibly losing desired title "duplicates".

[kovidgoyal]

Use the find duplicates plugin for whatever style of compare you want.