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Combining similar titles when importing
Sometimes, especially when comparing different versions of the same book, I want the same title to have apparently duplicate entries in my Calibre library. Then I'll change the tags somehow to make them distinctive. This only works if I go into Preferences and uncheck the box for automatically combining similar titles.
If that box is unchecked, then Calibre asks me if I want to import duplicates. So far, so good. The problem is that I can't at that point say: Yes, combine into one entry; or, Yes, but import as separate entries; or, No, don't import duplicates That's a tweak I would really appreciate having. In a related vein... For a while, there was a nice feature, if you had duplicate entries in the library, where you could right-click on a couple of same titles and select an option to merge the entries. The feature seems to have gone away. Has it been removed? Or have I just misplaced it? |
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Wouldn't it be better in the 'Similar books' sub menu?
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The operations in the "Add" menu (Nit: the button bar is the "Main Menu") are "before the fact" (added to DB) type items. Seems logical in this context ![]() |
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You guys are thinking like programmers, not users.
![]() From a user's perspective (a nonprogrammer-user), you highlight a couple of book titles, you right-click, and on that primary context menu, you look for a way to merge two files into one entry. "Similar books" is more intuitive than "edit metadata," but an entry directly in the primary context menu makes the most sense to me. It's on a similar level to save, send, convert, etc. I wasn't talking about the top menu (button) bar at all. In any case, this is a secondary nitpick. My initial point was, why when adding similar titles (e.g.., identical titles in different formats) can't we have a dialogue box that gives us a choice of whether to merge into one entry or keep in separate entries? Last edited by starrigger; 09-30-2010 at 12:03 PM. |
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You mean this setting?
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If you're adding a few books, either drag them into the edit metadata screen for an existing book, or just drag them into the main GUI, tell Calibre to add any duplicate titles it finds and Merge together the duplicate titles you want merged (or don't merge if that's your preference). That's why I wrote Merge. The option you're asking about (referred to by me as the "autosort/automerge" option due to the long name that's next to that option box <grin>) was designed for when you're adding lots of books, not just a few. In that case, you don't want to have to Merge manually, so you turn the option on. Similarly, if you're adding lots of books, you don't want to have to answer "a dialogue box that gives us a choice of whether to merge into one entry or keep in separate entries" dozens of times. Turning on the option is the global answer to that question, and turning it off and Merging (or not) is not much more work for just a few books. |
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I was looking in the context menu as well, but at least there is a keystroke for it: M.
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Whoa! That's dangerous. I just selected a couple of books and pressed M to see what kind of dialogue would come up. <Bing> One of the books vanished. Given how easy it is to hit a key by accident (even if you know to expect that behavior), I'd sure like to see a confirmation dialogue on that. Or a way to disable the keystroke option. Or undo.
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![]() If automerge is off, you get a notice only when duplicate titles have been found. The notice comes up regardless of whether the authors match or not. If you allow duplicate titles, you get duplicates, again, regardless of whether the authors match or not. I'm not sure what you mean by "Import both, but don't merge" when automerge is off? Quote:
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