Adding new books with replace/discard option

[Taeteck]

I'm not sure if it would be usefull for everyone, but i think that when you manage large amount of ebooks, its hard to keep versions and new books updated; so it would be a great option if the program allows to compare the existent book in calibre with the new added and give the option to replace/discard.

It would have to be able to be deactivated becouse i guess most people dont want to check the books one by one.

Thanks, and if this post does not fit here i appologize, and for my poor english to

[BetterRed]

@Taeteck - I achieve this by adding my books to a 'preparation library' where I do whatever is necessary to get the basic metadata correct - author(s) and title etc.

Then I use the Find Library Duplicates function of the Find Duplicates Plugin which compares the books in the 'preparation library' with the books in the 'target library'.

The duplicates in the 'preparation library' get 'Marked'; so I move the un-Marked books (marked:false) to the target library and then I decide what I want to do about the duplicates. This varies from book to book. some I discard because they're real duplicates, some are different editions of the same text which I 'merge' into the existing book, and others are not really duplicates so I find a way to differentiate them.

Most of my books are not commercial books as such, they're papers, reports etc from governments, institutions, think tanks, consultancies etc.

Oh, and you put your post in exactly the right place

BR

[Taeteck]

@BetterRed Thank you very much, i will try this right now