Many phantom duplicates in Photos Folder

I used the "Photos" tab on the main screen for the first time today.
When I went there, each photo in the library was duplicated dozens of times. So I'd see a whole page full of thumbnails just for one photo.
iPhoto claimed that there were more than 11,000 photos on my iPad!
In the inbuilt Photos app, however, there are only about 600 photos in its "Photos" tab.
A device reboot didn't sort it out, so I uninstalled iPhoto and then reinstalled it.
Now when I go to the iPhoto Photos tab, each image is duplicated a mere three times. Some are duplicated five times. iPhoto now claims that I have 1,880 photos.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on here?
Thanks.

There are not duplicates. iPhone stores photos, synced to your phone through iTunes, same way iPhoto does. All photos are stored in the "Photo Library" on your phone(same as iPhoto). The pics in the various albums/folders merely contain pointers to the actual photos, which are in the Photo Library. And no, you cannot delete the Photo Library.

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