05-05-2023, 07:40 AM | #1 |
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Have you ever accidentally purchased a book twice?
I've had this happen before, though always with the freebies.
I see an interesting-looking book, decide to grab it, and then Calibre informs me that it's a duplicate of a book in my library. (Or, if I'd cleaned the title of "a novel of blahblah" crap, I occasionally fail to notice until later.) Ah, the problems of purchasing eBooks from multiple websites. |
05-05-2023, 08:24 AM | #2 |
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It also happpens if the publisher re-releases the book under a different title. For example Susannah Kearsley and Tania Crosse have books released under different titles. Only got caught out once though.
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05-05-2023, 10:22 AM | #3 |
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Yes, a couple of times. I was sure I did not have it and didn't bother to check in Calibre, so of course I noticed as soon as I added the new book there or cleaned up the metadata. I returned those books immediately.
Without Calibre there would be ten times more, as I buy from several different stores and always have. |
05-05-2023, 10:24 AM | #4 |
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Only with a paper book.
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05-05-2023, 10:35 AM | #5 |
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Once a new paperback,
Once a S/H from a charity shop And once an Amazon ebook. Mysteriously not shown as "Purchased, Read Now" (I check Calibre first now). |
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05-05-2023, 10:36 AM | #6 |
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Hmm never happened to me with a paper book. I have only had about 1000 paper books (less now, as I got rid of some) and several times as many ebooks, so while I usually remembered with the former, it's no longer possible to remember everything with the latter.
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05-05-2023, 10:42 AM | #7 |
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05-05-2023, 11:55 AM | #8 |
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Yes, but now I don't remember which book. Sometimes I forget to check if I already own the book with calibre.
And sometimes there is no alternative: You buy a book in a series and then they publish the whole series together and it is less expensive than buy the remaining books none by one. |
05-05-2023, 12:57 PM | #9 |
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Oh yeah, omnibuses. I have some overlapping books there but didn't really think of them.
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I usually delete the overlapping books from Calibre when I have the omnibus. |
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05-05-2023, 02:18 PM | #11 |
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Oh! I did not think of omnibus that came in a Baen Bundle
(even with that, a bundle was still a good deal, just not as good ) |
05-05-2023, 02:49 PM | #12 |
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I always use Calibre to split omnibuses.
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05-05-2023, 03:11 PM | #13 |
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I split omnibuses when they're unrelated books. But the series ones I don't bother.
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05-05-2023, 04:20 PM | #14 |
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I actually prefer omnibuses to single books.
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05-05-2023, 04:54 PM | #15 |
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Where I've purchased all the books in a series, I will combine them into an omnibus. Reduces the number of books shown in my library and handy for when I want to binge read a series.
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