01-29-2011, 08:27 AM | #1 |
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Adding leading letters to book-titles
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I have a question about calibre. I want to add some letters to a lot of book-titles. It should look like this one as an example: before: 1500 - The Day when all began after: AB1500 - The Day when all began and https://www2.mobileread.com/i/smilies/biggrin.gif is it possible in a extra row in the metadatas to number some books begining with 0001 to 0100? I have tried it, but all i tried does not work https://www2.mobileread.com/i/smilies/confused.gif So i will be very thankful if someone could help me! Many thanks in advance!! noerd the 77th |
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You understood me correct. And what you said is just what i suspected.
Many thanks for your help! |
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Could you create a custom column (named prefix), serial type, and store the prefix letters as the serial name and then store the order number in the serial-number.
Use another custom-column (built from other colums), with the template {#prefix}{title} And use this as your title, when doing a 'save as' may need tweaking. Edit: I haven't actually tried it myself - but it should work. |
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Hello,
maybe i am too inexpertly. All i tried, it doesn't work. So maybe i could try it with the file-title? Is it possible to take the file-title (the name i see in the file-explorer in Windows) as the booktitle in the ebooks metadata? I thank you all for your help!!! Sorry for my gaucheness |
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There is no reason why you could do this via the bulk metadata editor using the search and replace tab. Since I have yet to have a need for this I have absolutely no clue how to do this. Hopefully someone with a clue will stop by.
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But, the big "but", the Author is gone. So i have to choose, either i take the possibility to set the title from the filename on import and loose the author. Than i have to add the author manually. Or i add my needed letters manually. I think to add the leading letters manually will be the easier and shorter way. Maybe when i'm ready with this work sometime, someone will add the function i need to calibre? |
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Apart from the automatically increasing numerical vaule you want, the functionality is already there (And the increasing value could, as Perkin described, be built via a series column). And it is already possible to read the author from the filename, if the information is there in the first place.
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