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OldLincoln · 10-10-2015, 08:26 PM

I'm one who has always entered series data manually and usually changed the titles to: "series #: shortened title". Worked fine until I had metadata issues and had to go back to Amazon to find missing ids. IF the title and author are exact, download metadata usually found the missing identifiers. My modified titles broke and possibility of this happening,

My fix was to create a custom column with lookup name mytitle and column MyTitle.
Next a new Search & Replace with a Regular Expression Search Mode and:
Search Field = title
Search For: (.*)
Replace With: \1
Destination Field: #mytitle
Save as what you want

Highlight the titles you want to modify and run the S&R. The MyTitle column for selected books will populate with the titles data. Then make your changes in the MyTitle column. If you ever need to refer back to the Amazon site (without a current identifier), you have a chance with using download metadata.

I will use this for all my new books when adding them so I'm set.

10-10-2015, 08:26 PM	#1
OldLincoln Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 1961918 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: FBReader	Quick Tip for Titles I'm one who has always entered series data manually and usually changed the titles to: "series #: shortened title". Worked fine until I had metadata issues and had to go back to Amazon to find missing ids. IF the title and author are exact, download metadata usually found the missing identifiers. My modified titles broke and possibility of this happening, My fix was to create a custom column with lookup name mytitle and column MyTitle. Next a new Search & Replace with a Regular Expression Search Mode and: Search Field = title Search For: (.*) Replace With: \1 Destination Field: #mytitle Save as what you want Highlight the titles you want to modify and run the S&R. The MyTitle column for selected books will populate with the titles data. Then make your changes in the MyTitle column. If you ever need to refer back to the Amazon site (without a current identifier), you have a chance with using download metadata. I will use this for all my new books when adding them so I'm set.