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Yirabeth · 12-28-2010, 07:01 PM

Thank you! That did the trick, and took waaay less than the hours I spent on it trying to figure it out myself today...LOL!

For the record, if you started your book collection back before the days when a program would maintain metadata for you, and thus don't need the series index because you've saved the file as such many many moons ago... *grin* Typing the plugboard transformation as this will work wonders:

{series:| |: }{title}

I just removed the plain series parameter, then took the _index out of the second parameter - previously it was : {series}{series_index:| |: }{title}

The books are on my iPad in the desired format now:

Series 01: Book Title.epub
Author Name

Maybe I'll work out the syntax to use a dash instead of a colon next...or not. LOL

Thanks again

~Yira

12-28-2010, 07:01 PM	#3
Yirabeth Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: eBookwise	Thank you! That did the trick, and took waaay less than the hours I spent on it trying to figure it out myself today...LOL! For the record, if you started your book collection back before the days when a program would maintain metadata for you, and thus don't need the series index because you've saved the file as such many many moons ago... grin Typing the plugboard transformation as this will work wonders: {series:\| \|: }{title} I just removed the plain series parameter, then took the _index out of the second parameter - previously it was : {series}{series_index:\| \|: }{title} The books are on my iPad in the desired format now: Series 01: Book Title.epub Author Name Maybe I'll work out the syntax to use a dash instead of a colon next...or not. LOL Thanks again ~Yira