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Originally Posted by ACGAuthor

LOL okay, We're juggling enough issues that I've turned myself around. I'm going to make the paragraphs shorter because right now my brain is not interpreting large chunks of text properly lol.

ISSUE #1
The problem, first, was that it was hyphenating anything longer than 8 letters (ex. "The SeriesTitle" would have been "Seri-itle", which I just don't care for. Frankly, I would be perfect okay getting rid of the hyphenation feature all together and leaving one-word titles completely intact

Since I don't know how to get rid of that feature, however, I worked around it instead. I fixed it by making the change to the second column the way I mentioned above (changed "4,-,4" to "6,-,6.")

So. That worked. I just needed to update it on the device, and I was asking if there was a way to do that and you said deleting the file and re-sideloading it was the only way, which is fine. We're cool there.

What ISN'T working for me, however, is that books I add later in the same series aren't getting the series tacked onto the front of the titles at all.

So, "SeriesTitle [01]" and "SeriesTitle [02]" which were already in my library when I started using the plugboard worked fine, BUT when I added a book that should have gotten "SeriesTitle [03]" tacked onto the title a few days later, no joy.

In other words, in that scenario, the plugboard works fine, but it's not being applied to books added to my library after that initial batch worked. And I have no idea why.

ISSUE #2
In the following two scenarios, I would just like to tweak a couple things cosmetically.

What I have now:
A book in the series "Series & Series" displays as
"S& S [01] BookTitle"

I would like to get rid of that space after the ampersand, so that it displays as
"S&S [01] BookTitle"

The second scenario is when the series title is "Series and Series" which will display as
"SS [01] BookTitle"

What I would like to do is, instead of getting rid of the word and, replace it with an ampersand, so it would display as
"S&S [01] BookTitle"

ISSUE #3
Regarding creating a user category (for exporting as a collection):

The custom column you told me to build above is perfect for sorting authors into chunks of the alphabet . Thank you so much!

Now I just need to figure out how to sort them within a specific genre, which would either be added as a tag, or as another new column, "Urban Fantasy", "Romance", etc.

Would it be possible to do a series of custom columns to make that happen?

For Example, A custom column with the last initial, and then a custom column with the last initial if it has a tag for a specific genre?

Then I would take that custom column and create a user category based upon it, which I'd then use Kindle Collections to export to a collection on my device and I'd be golden.

Issue #1: This doesn't make any sense to me -- are you sure the plugboard is properly applied? Is it still being applied to the old ones? Double-check by putting the template into a custom column, which books are being affected properly, which aren't?

Issue #2: use this instead for your third column to fix the space after ampersand:

Name: #initials. Template: {#stripped_series:re(([\s])?([^\s])[^\s]+(\s|$),\1)}

Edit all the series' that use "and" to use "&".

Issue #3: what genre tags do you have in mind? I will assume they will be in the "tags" column.