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kunkel321 · 05-31-2016, 11:51 AM

I Have lots of books in my Calibre library that are named such that the metadata downloader doesn't recognize them. Such as:
"Jim, Jose, Sandy & George Great book of Stuff, Happy Publishing 2011.ISBN.2D4D5H7"
They don't all follow this logic of <name>&<name><title> etc, but many of them do follow patterns.

I see several different patters that show up over and over, so I'd like to set up some different templates that could be applied to different books. (Not while adding them, but changing a book that is already part of the library.) It would be nice if I could use the Edit Metadata dialog to 'parse' a name with one of the templates. Even better if I could visually select a group of books that all had a similar pattern in their name, and bulk parse them...

Does that make sense? Is something like this possible? Should I submit this as a feature request?

05-31-2016, 11:51 AM	#1
kunkel321 Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Near Seattle Device: Amazon Fire 10	Rename existing books, using template? I Have lots of books in my Calibre library that are named such that the metadata downloader doesn't recognize them. Such as: "Jim, Jose, Sandy & George Great book of Stuff, Happy Publishing 2011.ISBN.2D4D5H7" They don't all follow this logic of <name>&<name><title> etc, but many of them do follow patterns. I see several different patters that show up over and over, so I'd like to set up some different templates that could be applied to different books. (Not while adding them, but changing a book that is already part of the library.) It would be nice if I could use the Edit Metadata dialog to 'parse' a name with one of the templates. Even better if I could visually select a group of books that all had a similar pattern in their name, and bulk parse them... Does that make sense? Is something like this possible? Should I submit this as a feature request?