Need Add Book Preference Help

akmatov · 06-22-2011, 12:23 PM

I'm very new to using Calibre but so far it seems fairly straight forward, but for one small issue.

I have a large number of ebooks I'm entering into Calibre, some of which are part of a series. Looking at the Preferences/Add Book I was able to rearrange the default setting to (?P<author>[^_]+)-(?P<title>.+) so that an ebook file in the format John Smith-A Book.pdf will Add Book into Calibre as Author=John Smith and Title=A Book.

However, what would be the formula for the first book in John Smith's naval mystery series, i.e. "John Smith - A Book - Naval Mystery 1"?

Looking at the preferences that can be set it seems there are quite a few items that could be translated from the file name into Calibre. However, while I was able to figure out "author" and "title", "series" added to the same style of formula didn't work.

Advise would be appreciated.

theducks · 06-22-2011, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by akmatov

I'm very new to using Calibre but so far it seems fairly straight forward, but for one small issue.

I have a large number of ebooks I'm entering into Calibre, some of which are part of a series. Looking at the Preferences/Add Book I was able to rearrange the default setting to (?P<author>[^_]+)-(?P<title>.+) so that an ebook file in the format John Smith-A Book.pdf will Add Book into Calibre as Author=John Smith and Title=A Book.

However, what would be the formula for the first book in John Smith's naval mystery series, i.e. "John Smith - A Book - Naval Mystery 1"?

Looking at the preferences that can be set it seems there are quite a few items that could be translated from the file name into Calibre. However, while I was able to figure out "author" and "title", "series" added to the same style of formula didn't work.

Advise would be appreciated.

The default gave the clue.

Code:

^((?P<author>([^\_0-9]+)(?=\s*-\s*)(?!\s*-\s*[0-9.]+)|\b))(\s*-\s*)?((?P<series>[^0-9\-]+) ([-#] ?)?(?P<series_index>[0-9.]+)?\s*-\s*)?(?P<title>.+)

BTW use the 'Test' area to validate the you pattern performs correctly on ALL the files you feed it.

akmatov · 06-22-2011, 01:05 PM

Thanks, I will go forth and experiment.

What you listed is much more complete than the default that I was getting and the Test function is GREAT advice.

akmatov · 06-22-2011, 01:39 PM

Rats
calibre, version 0.8.6
ERROR: Invalid regular expression: Invalid regular expression: unbalanced parenthesis

akmatov · 06-22-2011, 01:41 PM

oops fixed

akmatov · 06-22-2011, 01:58 PM

Thank you so much. That was exactly what I needed to figure out how to set my file names into a format that Calibre can digest just the way I want it to.

06-22-2011, 12:23 PM	#1
akmatov Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 38 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	Need Add Book Preference Help I'm very new to using Calibre but so far it seems fairly straight forward, but for one small issue. I have a large number of ebooks I'm entering into Calibre, some of which are part of a series. Looking at the Preferences/Add Book I was able to rearrange the default setting to (?P<author>[^_]+)-(?P<title>.+) so that an ebook file in the format John Smith-A Book.pdf will Add Book into Calibre as Author=John Smith and Title=A Book. However, what would be the formula for the first book in John Smith's naval mystery series, i.e. "John Smith - A Book - Naval Mystery 1"? Looking at the preferences that can be set it seems there are quite a few items that could be translated from the file name into Calibre. However, while I was able to figure out "author" and "title", "series" added to the same style of formula didn't work. Advise would be appreciated.

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06-22-2011, 01:05 PM	#3
akmatov Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 38 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	Thanks, I will go forth and experiment. What you listed is much more complete than the default that I was getting and the Test function is GREAT advice.

06-22-2011, 01:39 PM	#4
akmatov Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 38 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	Rats calibre, version 0.8.6 ERROR: Invalid regular expression: Invalid regular expression: unbalanced parenthesis

06-22-2011, 01:41 PM	#5
akmatov Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 38 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	oops fixed

06-22-2011, 01:58 PM	#6
akmatov Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 38 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	Thank you so much. That was exactly what I needed to figure out how to set my file names into a format that Calibre can digest just the way I want it to.

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