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Gary_M_Mugford · 08-17-2014, 06:38 AM

Hi all,

I come at the desire to dispense with non title material for two reasons. First, I have the shared experience above where the addition of the non-titlle info bollixes up the network search for meta-data. But secondly, my literary prof friend who uses Calibre to do management of his students' work, has another issue. The students started putting search terms in the title (i.e. Elizabethean Poetry - 10212 (Romanticism, Historial)). This is intended to game the system and have their essay come up in searches at the top ... the students not knowing how the teacher keeps their work. It's also a DIRECT contravention of what they are instructed to do, listing categories at the end of their essays. So, I'm in a little bit of a pickle.

My basic instinct is to go to work with a user-defined column, work at chopping off after designated BAD symbols ... brackets and the like, and then have the teach copy over THAT column over top of the Authors column contents. Ugh!!!

Better would be to find out of the Library import routines ever have a moment of Title declaration where the title COULD be shaved of everything after a designated stop symbol. Maybe even several (some of the kids seem awfully found of '|' for example). Make it an option. Defaulting to off so that the great unwashed never need to know of its' existence.

And while I'm here, maybe a change to TitleCase option. It's ALMOST there, but All caps and all lower case still beat it. But I'm as happy as I can be and this is just digressing.

So, IS it feasible before I put it on Kovid's feature requested list?

Thanks, GM

08-17-2014, 06:38 AM	#15
Gary_M_Mugford Groupie Posts: 180 Karma: 299 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brampton ON Device: Kobo, Kindle3	Hi all, I come at the desire to dispense with non title material for two reasons. First, I have the shared experience above where the addition of the non-titlle info bollixes up the network search for meta-data. But secondly, my literary prof friend who uses Calibre to do management of his students' work, has another issue. The students started putting search terms in the title (i.e. Elizabethean Poetry - 10212 (Romanticism, Historial)). This is intended to game the system and have their essay come up in searches at the top ... the students not knowing how the teacher keeps their work. It's also a DIRECT contravention of what they are instructed to do, listing categories at the end of their essays. So, I'm in a little bit of a pickle. My basic instinct is to go to work with a user-defined column, work at chopping off after designated BAD symbols ... brackets and the like, and then have the teach copy over THAT column over top of the Authors column contents. Ugh!!! Better would be to find out of the Library import routines ever have a moment of Title declaration where the title COULD be shaved of everything after a designated stop symbol. Maybe even several (some of the kids seem awfully found of '\|' for example). Make it an option. Defaulting to off so that the great unwashed never need to know of its' existence. And while I'm here, maybe a change to TitleCase option. It's ALMOST there, but All caps and all lower case still beat it. But I'm as happy as I can be and this is just digressing. So, IS it feasible before I put it on Kovid's feature requested list? Thanks, GM