Calibre File Names

ll Legion ll · 10-13-2010, 04:03 PM

Sorry if this has been asked before, but Mobileread won't allow a search for "file name", since "name" is too common a word...

Can anybody tell me how to set Calibre so that is doesn't place the "The" in a book title to the end of the name?

For example:

"Stephen King - The Dead Zone.mobi" (The way I want it)
instead of
"Stephen King - Dead Zone, The.mobi" (the way Calibre does it)

Thanks in advance!

travger · 10-13-2010, 04:24 PM

Welcome to MobileRead!
Try Preferences>Import/Export>Adding books.
Then you probably need to search for the regular expression that suits your filenames; it has been much discussed and you can find lot of examples.

speakingtohe · 10-13-2010, 04:42 PM

it is under tweaks in preferences

# Control how title and series names are formatted when saving to disk/sending
# to device. If set to library_order, leading articles such as The and A will
# be put at the end
# If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted without processing
# For example, with library_order, "The Client" will become "Client, The". With
# strictly_alphabetic, it would remain "The Client".
save_template_title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'

Starson17 · 10-13-2010, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

it is under tweaks in preferences

Be aware: It's not retroactively applied. You need to recalculate the title to get it to change. It doesn't change just because you change the tweak.

ll Legion ll · 10-13-2010, 05:03 PM

Awesome Awesome Awesome!

Thank you so much!!!

10-13-2010, 04:03 PM	#1
ll Legion ll Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Calibre File Names Sorry if this has been asked before, but Mobileread won't allow a search for "file name", since "name" is too common a word... Can anybody tell me how to set Calibre so that is doesn't place the "The" in a book title to the end of the name? For example: "Stephen King - The Dead Zone.mobi" (The way I want it) instead of "Stephen King - Dead Zone, The.mobi" (the way Calibre does it) Thanks in advance!

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10-13-2010, 04:24 PM	#2
travger Evangelist Posts: 424 Karma: 266280 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: palm tx, Windows XP	Welcome to MobileRead! Try Preferences>Import/Export>Adding books. Then you probably need to search for the regular expression that suits your filenames; it has been much discussed and you can find lot of examples.

10-13-2010, 04:42 PM	#3
speakingtohe Wizard Posts: 2,293 Karma: 12769550 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: sony PRS-600, PRS-350, PRS-T1, Tablet	it is under tweaks in preferences # Control how title and series names are formatted when saving to disk/sending # to device. If set to library_order, leading articles such as The and A will # be put at the end # If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted without processing # For example, with library_order, "The Client" will become "Client, The". With # strictly_alphabetic, it would remain "The Client". save_template_title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'

10-13-2010, 05:03 PM	#5
ll Legion ll Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Awesome Awesome Awesome! Thank you so much!!!


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