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(Device Kindle)

Is there an easier way to swap plugboards other than the way I am doing it?
I currently use Calibre for conversions and changing titles rather than book management.

For authors who have written series I like the file and book title to be in the format “series number – title” which I achieve by the script:
{series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|[|] - }{title}

For authors who do not write in series I like the format of the files and titles to be “Published date – title” for which I use:
{pubdate} {title}

These may be used for both Save to Disc and Send to Device depending on the circumstances.

The only way I have found to change from one format to the other is to edit and re-edit the “metadata plugboards” and the “saving to Disk”/”saving to device” templates in Preferences.

Is there an easier way or a super plugboard that would give the required result depending on whether or not there were series in the metadata of the selected books? Or do I just keep plugboarding away?