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Thank you Adoby and Robb,
I think there's a lot of power here, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. I did try both sets of regular expressions but was not able to achieve results worthy of actual application (based on the in-dialog "test" results section).
For the otherworld example I went ahead and made the changes manually. There are still quite a number of series where I have this title/series issue and I will want to use the regular expression method, but I think I need to actually spend a day or so learning how to write my own, rather than trying to apply something given to me, since without the understanding behind it I can really screw everything up royally.
Harry T: thank you for reminding me to backup my calibre library.
LadyKate: I'm like you. I've just discovered the "modify epub" and "polish" plugins and they really are so much better than doing the whole "save cover and metadata in a separate file" thing I've been doing for the last umpteen years. I'm still trying to figure out which method I prefer, and which of the many sets of settings are the most useful for my purposes. But so far, it looks like embedding all my carefully applied downloaded/corrected metadata from authors to series to comments and tags to improved covers and etc... it doesn't make sense to continue saving these to exernal files, since re-importing my own files back into calibre i have to do all that work all over again. (never could figure out why I had to do things two and three times....)
yadda yadda I love this program. OT brain fart: Still wondering why it has never actually achieved a "full release" versioning aka 1.0? It's mature, well-loved, and constantly improved. Surely we can consider it out of alpha?
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