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Old 10-12-2013, 03:05 AM   #13
kcz
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
Hmmm... the above leads me down another path. You could use the command line interface to dump the series information to a CSV table (calibredb), write a script to process that table and compute the resulting format strings, then use the command line interface to set the value of the custom column for the books in a series (calibredb search to get the ids for the books in a series then calibredb set_custom for each id).
Wow, this is truly an excellent idea. I totally forgot about the command line interface.
In this case I can write a script in perl, bash or whatnot and run the script every time I modify a series.

Thank you so much. I guess I didn't see the forrest for the trees.

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