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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Just use the search and replace with an appropriate regex to fix 'S in your titles if you're sure it is always wrong.
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Ahh... the "developer's response"...
Please don't take offense, I am a software developer myself.
Two things. Firstly, good point on the rule maybe only working on english titles. However given that I would "guess" (with no empirical evidence) that a very high percentage of the books that Calibre users worldwide are indeed English titles, surely it's a "cheap win" to at least consider offering it as an option in the settings somewhere? There really is a very high percentage of pluralised titles out there, at least in my library.
Secondly, thanks for the proposed workaround. However putting aside the temporary pain of brushing up on my regex expressions, I don't have a high degree of confidence in the search/replace function. It seems to have a strange behaviour and only work on a subset of the "selected" titles when I have tried it a couple of times today in 0.7.23. When I had around 100 titles selected, it would only make the changes to the last third or so of them from memory, so when done only those ones would be selected and changed?