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Robmonster · 11-15-2011, 10:18 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Here is what I am trying to do, perhaps you can suggest a better way of going about it.

I have downloaded an archive of archives from a chess website called Novice Nook. They zip up PDF's of their monthly column. When I drag the PDF's into Calibre they all come in titled 'Novice Nook'. ( I have to tell calibre to allow duplicates or else I just get one book added to the library)

Ultimately I want them all the be named in a way that shows which year and month the article is from. I thought I would use the series feature since that easily gives each one a unique number assuming I create a series for each year. I had then hoped to use the Search And Replace feature on the title field to change the titled from 'Novice Nook' to 'Novice Nook 2010 1' or something similar.

The Series feature worked quite happily, automatically numbering the articles so my series field now reads 2010 1, 2010 2 and so on. I couldn’t find any way of automatically renaming them though, so I've been manually re3naming each in turn which is time consuming.

My initial plan was to quickly get the series data entered ad then Search And Replace the Title fields all in one go.

I've only just started using Calibre so there is probably a much better way to do this that I do not yet know about.

Rob

11-15-2011, 10:18 AM	#3
Robmonster Wizard! Posts: 250 Karma: 548228 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: UK Device: Paperwhite, Voyage + Oasis2	Thanks for the reply. Here is what I am trying to do, perhaps you can suggest a better way of going about it. I have downloaded an archive of archives from a chess website called Novice Nook. They zip up PDF's of their monthly column. When I drag the PDF's into Calibre they all come in titled 'Novice Nook'. ( I have to tell calibre to allow duplicates or else I just get one book added to the library) Ultimately I want them all the be named in a way that shows which year and month the article is from. I thought I would use the series feature since that easily gives each one a unique number assuming I create a series for each year. I had then hoped to use the Search And Replace feature on the title field to change the titled from 'Novice Nook' to 'Novice Nook 2010 1' or something similar. The Series feature worked quite happily, automatically numbering the articles so my series field now reads 2010 1, 2010 2 and so on. I couldn’t find any way of automatically renaming them though, so I've been manually re3naming each in turn which is time consuming. My initial plan was to quickly get the series data entered ad then Search And Replace the Title fields all in one go. I've only just started using Calibre so there is probably a much better way to do this that I do not yet know about. Rob