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sehlat · 07-22-2017, 09:50 PM

I'm moving a large collection of books into a Calibre-curated library, and am having a devil of a time getting the author and title correct for such books. Since I got them from fictionwise, they have file names like "CarlTCStone.txt", but when I do an "Add books", I get the file name displayed as the title, and the Author as "Unknown." Since I'm doing this one author at a time, I can readily bulk-change the author to the correct name, but the Title shows up as "CarlTCStone."

All of these books start with the following four lines:
======================
The Charm Stone
by Lillian Stewart Carl
======================
is there a plugin or some other means of getting the title/author correct on loading the book?

07-22-2017, 09:50 PM	#1
sehlat Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: iPhone Marvin, Marvin 3	Adding books in ".txt" format and getting author/title I'm moving a large collection of books into a Calibre-curated library, and am having a devil of a time getting the author and title correct for such books. Since I got them from fictionwise, they have file names like "CarlTCStone.txt", but when I do an "Add books", I get the file name displayed as the title, and the Author as "Unknown." Since I'm doing this one author at a time, I can readily bulk-change the author to the correct name, but the Title shows up as "CarlTCStone." All of these books start with the following four lines: ====================== The Charm Stone by Lillian Stewart Carl ====================== is there a plugin or some other means of getting the title/author correct on loading the book?