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Originally Posted by Synful

Okay....and again I'm back....

Everything seems to be converting to the way I want, the books are going to my K3 the way I want...except for PDFs.

These still maintain a title that I do not want. I want everything uniform.

This is what I have under Preferences:

ADDING BOOKS: Regular Expression (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?
The above expression has been working perfectly for me...except with PDFs. The PDFs still continue to have the author name in the title of the book, although the Calibre is showing the author and title are separate.

So you are saying the title and author columns in Calibre have the correct values in the library view right? In which case your "add to Calibre" step is working fine and your regular expression above is not relevant to this issue.

SENDING BOOKS TO DEVICES: {authors}/{title} - {authors} with Automatic Management marked for metadata.
So far the above do-dad is working well...

Ok so that will sort out the directory structure for how they are saved on your Kindle. For a Kindle this isn't relevant to how they will appear displayed on the screen. Just the OCD in you that wants to control where they are stored under the covers. As dwanthy said above, if you go changing this make sure you change it in the device specific configuration screen in Preferences->Plugins->Devices->Kindle XXX. That caught me out yesterday, changing it in one place instead of the other.

TWEAKS: # Control formatting of title and series when used in templates save_template_title_series_sorting = 'Strictly_Alphabetic'

That sounds fine to me.

This is what I want my K3 to show: Within the collection called Debbie Macomber, a book should read "Angels Everywhere 02 - The Trouble With Angels". CURRENTLY, it is showing Debbie MacomberAngels Everywhere 02 - The Trouble With Angels

SO. How do I get the PDFs to keep the name that I give them when they are uploaded to K3?

You didn't mention your metadata plugboard values. This is what *will* control how your Kindle titles are displayed. For more info see this thread. So in Preferences-> Metadata Plugboards, create a plugboard of:
Format: mobi
Device: KINDLE2 (or whatever is relevant to your model)
Source template: {series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|| - }{title}
Destination field: title

Then make sure you send the books to your device again and hopefully you will get what you want appearing.

I suspect what is happening is that the metadata stored inside those PDF files is not what you want. And as Kindles use that metadata for display purposes you don't see what you want. So you need to setup a metadata plugboard above to overwrite the data when you send the book to your Kindle.

Once that is working, your next step will be the Kindle collections, I finally got around to trying the plugin yesterday and it does the job great.