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Old 07-13-2016, 11:48 AM   #178
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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh View Post
Unfortunately I don't have the skills to debug it. I hesitated to try Calibre's metadata mass update because of the warnings, but running a search-and-replace on the author column seems safe and solves that problem pretty easily.

I do wish there was a better source site than FF - it gives me bogus publish dates and an incomplete, incorrectly numbered series column. Unlike Author, I don't see any easy way to correct those. I've looked at Goodreads, Wikipedia, FictionDB and OrderOfBooks but none have accurate and complete data in the form of a usable database table...
If you select multiple books, You get Bulk Mode.
Any changes apply to JUST those.
So...
you select the books with Author:Unknown that you Know are the same .
author
Tap 'E' and set the Author (and tick Automatically set Author Sort )
Presto, all fixed

Warnings are there because anything that you do, applies to SELECTED books

do not use highlight found records in (blue bars w/no red slash)search mode, the records can be anywhere (outa sight). Been there, my foot still hurts
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