12-02-2008, 11:18 PM | #1 |
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Problems with commas in author field when importing
I downloaded some books from Feedbooks.com and imported them into Calibre. The author field, which should look like "Poe, Edgar Allan" instead looks like "Poe & Edgar Allan". Is there a way to fix this or should I file a bug report?
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12-02-2008, 11:49 PM | #2 |
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Sounds like an issue at the Feedbooks end with the metadata for that book.
In Calibre, the '&' is used to separate authors, so Calibre would think there were 2 authors, one called 'poe' and one called 'edgar allen'. This can be corrected by using the option to edit the metadata within Calibre. |
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12-02-2008, 11:58 PM | #3 |
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Yeah the author field should contain the author in canonical form. There is usually a separate field for the sorted form of the author name. You should bug feedbooks to make use of the fields correctly.
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12-04-2008, 02:30 PM | #4 |
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Sure I'll fix this. Since we only store ePub files for a short period of time (as a cache), all our files will be updated.
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12-04-2008, 06:39 PM | #5 |
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Fixed, every book downloaded from now on should be fine.
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12-05-2008, 12:40 AM | #6 |
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Thanks for the quick fix, Hadrien.
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