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Originally Posted by fidvo
I couldn't quite follow your post (probably because it's late at night and I can't think straight) but it looks like you're breaking the first rule of Calibre:
Use the built-in columns for what they were meant for.
Don't store series information in the title column. Store the title information in the title column, and the series information in the series column.
Take it from someone who's made all the mistakes and learned the hard way that there's a reason for the way Calibre organizes things. In this case, there's a very simple reason: It's easier to merge fields than to split them.
If a field holds exactly one piece of data, you can use templates and plugboards to combine it with another field that holds exactly one piece of data. But trying to extract one piece of data from a field that holds two pieces of data is far more difficult. For instance, what if you want to look up a book and you can remember its title but not its author or series?
Go ahead and use your MyTitle column to store both the series and the title in one field if you want. You can even set up a custom column template to do the merging automatically. But take the series out of the built-in title field.
Do this, and you will thank me one day.  |
I already thank you, you "burned the fuzz" off what I was thinking. I do use the series column and always have, but I wanted the series and title in the same column as I have a small monitor. The series is east of the title column. I didn't know I could automatically combine columns. Is the resulting column text something that could be edited? Some titles are very, very long (Blue Skies Over Montana - A Historical Novel of Montana in the 1860's); series (Historical Novels of Montana [1]). Well, I made that up but it's length is something I often run into.
So thank you for your advice and I have taken it to heart. Started out years ago using Calibre as is and let my library grow out from under me. Little late to standardize but it needs doing.