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dans6362 · 05-19-2011, 07:13 AM

Hi all,
Just discovered Calibre & this forum so this is my first post.

Over the years I've gathered a large collection (>5000) of S/F in TXT format & used Tom's EText Reader for accessing it. I've now commenced the task of converting it to EPUB for my Bookeen Opus.
My problem is that the txt files are very haphazard in how they have recorded Title & Author, and when Calibre converts them I get a range of values in the Author position. There is no predictable hyphenation or similar so I am resigned to a lot of editing.

But, each converted value for Author (which can be in a lot of cases part of the book title) appears in the Author Drop Box when I click on that to find the correct author. I do eventually find the author I want but the drop box keeps getting bigger & bigger the more conversions I do.

So, is there a way I can delete the "non-authors" from the drop box? Please!!
I can live with a few hundred different authors to space down (just) but not a few thousand!!

I'm hoping there is a simple delete process for this that I should but don't know.

Cheers

Dave

05-19-2011, 07:13 AM	#1
dans6362 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Australia Device: Bookeen Opus	Newbie has Drop Box problem -probably stupid question Hi all, Just discovered Calibre & this forum so this is my first post. Over the years I've gathered a large collection (>5000) of S/F in TXT format & used Tom's EText Reader for accessing it. I've now commenced the task of converting it to EPUB for my Bookeen Opus. My problem is that the txt files are very haphazard in how they have recorded Title & Author, and when Calibre converts them I get a range of values in the Author position. There is no predictable hyphenation or similar so I am resigned to a lot of editing. But, each converted value for Author (which can be in a lot of cases part of the book title) appears in the Author Drop Box when I click on that to find the correct author. I do eventually find the author I want but the drop box keeps getting bigger & bigger the more conversions I do. So, is there a way I can delete the "non-authors" from the drop box? Please!! I can live with a few hundred different authors to space down (just) but not a few thousand!! I'm hoping there is a simple delete process for this that I should but don't know. Cheers Dave