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Old 09-12-2010, 06:45 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Trickery View Post
I don't see the point of this post.

Couldn't he just use "Preferences > Input/Export > Adding Books > Configure Metadata from Filename" to get everything imported from his original library into Calibre completely intact?
Thank you for the post.
You have restored my faith in the high level of culture I have come to expect on Mobileread.

It is also worth noting, that if the original poster has consistent naming scheme, he could go to the Preferences, Import/Export, Adding books, and craft the regular expression for automatic harvesting of metadata from the filename.
This regular expression is not well documented, but you can go to the Preferences, Import/Export, Saving books to disk and see here what kind of variables you can use.

Crafting Regular expression for the import can take a while, but even a couple of days of experimenting here is much more elegant than trying to reenter metadata for many thousands of books manually.
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