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edzard · 10-10-2011, 07:22 AM

Hello!

I just bought a nook, and I wanted to load a bunch of policy documents onto it through calibre. These documents are stored in an elaborate file structure. Of course this failed, and after reading the sticky I understand why. After thinking about it for a while it makes sense to store documents this way, however I am still stuck with my 200+ policy documents that are stored in a file structure and do not have names from which you can usefully extract meta-data.

After reading up on the regexp stuff I found out that it is not possible to let callibre extract the metadata from the full path of a document either, just from the actual filename.

Since most people making the conversion have probably had the same problem as I have, does anyone know of easy-to-use freeware that lets you rename documents according to folder structure? For me it is not an option to manually rename them all, there are just too many of them.

Second question: is there an option in callibre to add custom metadata tags? The existing metadata tags are less relevant for policy documents than for books.

Thanks in advance!

10-10-2011, 07:22 AM	#1
edzard Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: Nook	Help liberating documents from file structure Hello! I just bought a nook, and I wanted to load a bunch of policy documents onto it through calibre. These documents are stored in an elaborate file structure. Of course this failed, and after reading the sticky I understand why. After thinking about it for a while it makes sense to store documents this way, however I am still stuck with my 200+ policy documents that are stored in a file structure and do not have names from which you can usefully extract meta-data. After reading up on the regexp stuff I found out that it is not possible to let callibre extract the metadata from the full path of a document either, just from the actual filename. Since most people making the conversion have probably had the same problem as I have, does anyone know of easy-to-use freeware that lets you rename documents according to folder structure? For me it is not an option to manually rename them all, there are just too many of them. Second question: is there an option in callibre to add custom metadata tags? The existing metadata tags are less relevant for policy documents than for books. Thanks in advance!