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Old 09-27-2010, 05:11 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
1. many book series are found with the series data embedded into the title i.e. the title syntax is something like "XXnn - title" where XXnn is a series abbreviation & series number.

this causes metadata lookups to usually fail, unless the XXnn is manually removed beforehand in each case - then replaced afterwards ( It's a useful format e,g, for Kindle )

so a bulk metadata update is not possible - any workaround for quickly doing 10+ books ?
When bulk editing the metadata, there's a search & replace- field. Try using that to first remove series info, then do your metadata lookup, then put the series info back again. Yes, three distinct steps is not "quickly", but it's better than doing every single book manually.
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