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Originally Posted by Gary_M_Mugford
I've asked before and been told it's one more setting and one more too many. But surely, in all the real estate that is the preferences system now, can't there be a setting for Import Case for Titles/Authors [x] default [ ] Title Case and I'd list the rest, but the only one I care about is Title Case.
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Sorry, but adding/importing books isn't my area. That said, it is easy to bulk convert authors to title case using bulk metadata edit search/replace. Set the 'search for' to "(.*)" (without the quotes), the 'replace with' to "\1", and change the "Apply function after replace" to Title Case.
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And, since I'm taking up the bandwidth anyways, I had a spate of text articles I downloaded from a bridge site. For whatever reason, the authors were listed in LN, FN order, while I use the FN LN format for storage in Calibre. I had to go in an reverse the order, changing Kantar, Eddie to Eddie Kantar, Mollo, Victor to Victor Mollo, etc. [...] Like If comma found in author, reverse and delete comma [X]
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There is the swap author firstname and lastname in preferences -> adding books. Of course, using this preference implies that you can separately add those files with the name 'backwards' and those with the name 'forwards'.
Again, you can use search/replace to do this in a post-pass. Select all books with an author containing a comma (authors:,), select the ones you want to change (all of them?), then use search/replace to swap the names. The 'Search for' string is "(.*), (.*)", and the replace string is "\2 \1".