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[GUI Plugin] LibraryThing Match
LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by authors, individuals, libraries, and publishers.
LibraryThing Match is a calibre plug-in for comparing your calibre e-book list with your LibraryThing catalog. Main Features:
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I am very excited about this plugin. LT deserves far more love than it seems to get!
For those of us who use Authors names as FN LN (I know - scandalous!) the plugin will try and match calibre first names to LF last names e.g. Adam-Troy Castro is paired up with John Joseph Adams. Are there any tricks or possible future configuration for this? I'm assuming I would just go back and forth in the Preferences>>Advanced>>Tweaks and switch between fn ln and ln, fn for Author Sort. If anyone has a better or more elegant method I'd love some ideas! |
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![]() I would not expect a very high probability match in that situation. The algorithm splits each string into "tokens" (i.e. words), sorts them, then compares the shortest combination. It includes the book title, so only if the titles are very similar as well would you get a high probability match. You can expect quite a few low probability matches, e.g. 50% and under, just from these random word matches. The LT API also returns author first last, so it would be fairly easy to add that as a LTMatch configuration option. Let me know if you are seeing anything different and I'll look into it further. |
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