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I don't see any critical need to process with regexp in a single shot. Your existing regexp should do it. And, step 3 would be an append so I can append fields. |
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Oh yes, it was. Hours of existential contemplation. In the end, I realized that I am free (as 'have freedom' as opposed to 'costing nothing', which I also have), and I can walk away! At that point I decided that if it is fun to do, then I will do it. Damn the torpedos!
And while we are metaphilosophical questions, I frequently wonder why so many people have 15,000+ book libraries... |
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if strange title/author fields (underscores, etc) come form file name, I find it easier to fix file names first with tool like ReNamer and then add them into calibre.
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This is really only a minor matter, but when I click on the "this reference"- link in your new feature, nothing happens. That could be somewhat offputting
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Hi Chaley, it works perfect. Thank you very much.
Also the uppercase/lowercae option is really nice. If you ever want to extend it with the option to use also other fields. I would suggest to define standard regexp groups and use it in a syntax like \g<title>. That by the way would make it look like the regexp syntax used in the add-book thinky. |
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I have wondered whether it would be better to simply have the http:... text and not mark it as a URL. Unfortunately, that would not be copyable, which is probably worse. |
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Can you give me a use case for cross-field named groups? I can't think of one that isn't extremely contrived, other than Starson's example of wanting to populate one field from another.
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I'm probably being pedantic here, but as a user, I'd either expect the link to launch or some sort of note explaining that I have to copy the link. That being said, this feature is great. I used it only once so far and already love it. |
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Okay a few example where a cross field thing can help:
Example 1: Title contains: Hello world (by Smart Author) Author contains: World series Series contains: Example 2: Title contains: BookSeries 1 Hello world Author contains: Smart Author Series contains: But if I think about, it can almost be solved by having an option to copy the field accross, and then using the existing mechanism to clean it up. No real need for extending the regexp, just a selection for a target field would do. What I found out using the new feature, it just enabled me to do things in seconds, that I did not want to do, just because the amount of work involved. For instance, I just harmonized the case over all titles to an uppercase on each word, and changed 'S back to 's. This was previously, just too much work. May be this thing is like wise. The attention from users for the regexp used to add books proves at least proves at least that I am not the only person fighting with the metadata. |
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And to Charles: You know this, but work only on what you enjoy. If I'm going to work on something, I like to know if others will find it useful. I posted only to clue you in on problems I'd seen - things I'd thought about doing myself - things I thought would prove useful - not to convince you to work on anything you might not do otherwise. |
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