Thread: Split tags at ";" on import
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Old 12-04-2013, 08:28 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Bananeweizen View Post
I have a small number of ebooks which came already tagged as "tag1; tag2; tag3". This is not recognized by calibre and the whole string is taken as one tag instead of splitting it.

Can I make calibre recognize this during the import by some setting or tweak? Or is this going be a feature request?

Thanks, Michael
Not an exact solution

for books with these 'composite tags'
Select the books. tap 'E' (for bulk metadata edit)
Use the Search and replace tool on the {Tags} field to break them apart
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