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Originally Posted by Mikey1969
Hi all,
5: If I was converting a bunch of books that some moron converted and edited Metadata on, is there a way to point to one book and make it the basis for all of the correction? Also, is there a way to automatically append series info to the front? In other words, I put the Oz books in order by going through and adding 'Oz 1', 'Oz 2', and so on to each title. Is there someway to tell Calibre up front to take the books in a preset order, and add 'Series' 'X', 'Series' 'X+1', and so on to a certain point in each title? This isn't major, I'm just wondering.
Thanks guys for any help, and I'm going to add this cool emoticon I see here on the side because I get a kick out of it...
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You can do bulk edits (multi-select, then right click, then 'edit metadata/edit metadata in bulk). I don't think you can base this off of a master, though that would be potentially useful at times.
Re: series/titles, etc.
-download the 'manage series' plugin. it's quite useful.
Best use is NOT to change the actual title name to include the series number. Rather, use the series column to store sequence, and then when you export to your Nook, use a metadata plugboard. (google this, you'll find easy instructions).
basically, what the plugboard does is appends the series number to the title (or author, or however you set it up) as you send the file to your Nook. That way, the version in your actual Calibre library is 'pure' and correctly titled. This can come in useful down the line; I know for different readers I need to display series info differently so it's best to just use plugboards.
All you need to do is set up a plugboard... you choose the source (epub, etc) then your destination (nook) and give it instructions to format... i use:
{series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|[|] - }{title}
which puts the series name/# before the title.