same title different author

[cmb1175]

Hi

is there a way to add books with the same titlle but a different author into calibre with out the duplicates box coming up and then me going through by hand looking for different authors

thanks

[BetterRed]

What I do is to add books to an Intake library and use the Find Duplicates>Library duplicates to look for duplicates in my Books library. If there is a duplicate (rare for me), I can look at what I have in the Books library via the Calibre Spy plugin.

Apart from that, I do metadata editing, conversions, etc while the book is in the Intake library, when that's done I move it to the Books library.

BR

[theducks]

In addition to using an Intake library
Use the Find Duplicates plugin to check against the other Library.
FD has duplicate match rules that can be configured

[cmb1175]

ok thanks

i do use the Find Duplicates plugin but was hoping for a better way

[theducks]

Originally Posted by cmb1175

ok thanks

i do use the Find Duplicates plugin but was hoping for a better way

I am not sure what you are doing (wrong) that triggers the 'duplicates' when adding.

You might review your settings in Preferences: Adding Books: Adding Actions (a tab)

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by theducks

I am not sure what you are doing (wrong) that triggers the 'duplicates' when adding.

You might review your settings in Preferences: Adding Books: Adding Actions (a tab)

He isn't doing anything wrong. When adding new books calibre will always flag books with the same title for manual review.

Originally Posted by cmb1175

is there a way to add books with the same titlle but a different author into calibre with out the duplicates box coming up and then me going through by hand looking for different authors

If you use a separate intake library for new books you can avoid the duplicate on add because there won't be any books in your intake library and as theducks states you can go to Preferences: Adding Books: Adding Actions to configure it to ignore title duplicates when copying from one library to another.

[cmb1175]

i dont use a separate intake library i just drop my book straight in to my library. i often down load a lot of fanfiction as epubs and drop them straight into calibre and titles like "second chance" ect are so polular they always open up the duplicates box and it means i have to go through a lot of books ticking them

I was just hoping there was a way calibre could be made to recognize a book with the same title but a different author

thanks

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by cmb1175

I was just hoping there was a way calibre could be made to recognize a book with the same title but a different author

There isn't a way to avoid it if you add books directly to the library.