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Old 03-30-2012, 04:24 AM   #2
kiwidude
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@louwin - calibre has no "magic" to guess what is a title and what is an author it cant tell which is which, YOU have to tell it what part is the title and what part is the author.

Go to Preferences -> Adding books, and you will see the regular expression that calibre uses by default. If you search the forums you will find plenty of other examples by other users.

Or it might be that you have turned on the option to "read metadata from within the file" (which I think is the default). Which for certain file types means that calibre will look at some special fields stored in that file format that are used to specify thigns like title and author. Note this has *nothing* to do with what text you see on the page, it is special internal metadata that whoever created the book had responsibility for setting. As such it quite often contains nonsense, or fields the wrong way around, or a personal editors name instead of the actual author etc.

Calibre is garbage in, garbage out. if you want a perfectly named collection, sometimes you have to do a bit of work yourself to get it sorted. There are plugins that can help like extract ISBN in combination with metadata download.
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