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Originally Posted by Rob557
Some titles are ridiculously long. Does anyone have an approach, such as using a custom column, to sort the library based on the length of the title (or length of authors, etc)? I would then manually edit the largest ones.
One partial tool seems to be the Quality Check plugin (check metadata / check titles with series), which seems to list a lot of the problem titles (I think because it includes a check for ":" which is often used in extended titles ... I don't know how to do a direct check for ":" in the title because something like search:: doesn't work in the search field).
An alternative is to generate an excel-type catalog of the library and then sort within excel using len(...), but I was wondering if the sort can be done within Calibre to make it easier to group the items to be edited?
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You might be able to use the Search and Replace
inside the
Bulk metadata editor
Select a small group of books first
You should be able to find anything your REGEX foo can code
You can even set a value in a destination (custom) column
(like string length if you can figure out if using chaleys advanced template expressions will work here)