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phossler · 03-06-2016, 04:40 PM

Many time after downloading metadata, there are a lot of <tags> in comments, esp. the <hx> tags

Using bulk edit I can change or delete a lot of the fields, but there doesn't seem to be any way to just remove the metadata formatting in the comments field, but leave the text (at least as far as I can find)

As a little test I added some formatting to a number of books (first screen shot) and tried bulk edit [Set the Comments...] (screen shot 2) and selected remove formatting and normal (hoping it would just delete the <hx> tags and the bolding and italicing, leaving the basic text

But that did as I suspected it would and cleared the metadata comments text also.

Is there an option I'm missing or is there a work around to just clear the formats in bulk, or is it a one book at a time operation?

Thanks

03-06-2016, 04:40 PM	#1
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Editing metadata comments in bulk (another issue) Many time after downloading metadata, there are a lot of <tags> in comments, esp. the <hx> tags Using bulk edit I can change or delete a lot of the fields, but there doesn't seem to be any way to just remove the metadata formatting in the comments field, but leave the text (at least as far as I can find) As a little test I added some formatting to a number of books (first screen shot) and tried bulk edit [Set the Comments...] (screen shot 2) and selected remove formatting and normal (hoping it would just delete the <hx> tags and the bolding and italicing, leaving the basic text But that did as I suspected it would and cleared the metadata comments text also. Is there an option I'm missing or is there a work around to just clear the formats in bulk, or is it a one book at a time operation? Thanks Attached Thumbnails Last edited by phossler; 03-08-2016 at 12:52 PM.