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Nerumshah · 11-25-2011, 02:27 AM

Good morning everyone, and thank you all for your hard work improving this wonderful Calibre!

I discovered Calibre a few days ago, after playing around with my brand new Kindle, wich, quite surprisingly I must say, really baffled me. I never thought i'd like reading on an electronic device, and you can easily imagine how thrilled I've been!!

Ok, so I got my Kindle, and gathered quite a few books from different sources... 13534 to be precise, many with doubles in different format. I manually got this number (It was before i found Calibre, of course!) down to 6935 unique e-books, 2/3 in LIT and the rest in rtf and pdf format, in the following structure:

Ebooks main folder / Author name folders (LN, FN) / [Book series] Book Name.extension

Which took me years and is quite clear, but not nearly as handy as using Calibre to manage them. Problem is, importing this massive collection left me with thousands of books wrongly tagged, because of poor book quality and i even if I have the courage to manually edit it, this probably will take me weeks of dedicated work....

So my question is, is there any way to get Calibre to understand that when it imports my books, it only has to put author name from the folder name, and original filename as book name? That would be a huge relief.

If not, any thought on how to smartly get the job done? I'll take any advice from knowledgeable people!

Thank you in advance for your help, I'll see you around on the forum from now on!

11-25-2011, 02:27 AM	#1
Nerumshah Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kindle Keyboard	Generating Author and title from directory structure Good morning everyone, and thank you all for your hard work improving this wonderful Calibre! I discovered Calibre a few days ago, after playing around with my brand new Kindle, wich, quite surprisingly I must say, really baffled me. I never thought i'd like reading on an electronic device, and you can easily imagine how thrilled I've been!! Ok, so I got my Kindle, and gathered quite a few books from different sources... 13534 to be precise, many with doubles in different format. I manually got this number (It was before i found Calibre, of course!) down to 6935 unique e-books, 2/3 in LIT and the rest in rtf and pdf format, in the following structure: Ebooks main folder / Author name folders (LN, FN) / [Book series] Book Name.extension Which took me years and is quite clear, but not nearly as handy as using Calibre to manage them. Problem is, importing this massive collection left me with thousands of books wrongly tagged, because of poor book quality and i even if I have the courage to manually edit it, this probably will take me weeks of dedicated work.... So my question is, is there any way to get Calibre to understand that when it imports my books, it only has to put author name from the folder name, and original filename as book name? That would be a huge relief. If not, any thought on how to smartly get the job done? I'll take any advice from knowledgeable people! Thank you in advance for your help, I'll see you around on the forum from now on!