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Originally Posted by mmjess
Hello everyone 
I have a very simple use of Calibre; however, there are two things I would like to learn to get "super clean" ePubs:
1. Clean up unnecessary metadata
I use very little data to identify my eBooks:
Title | Author(s) | Publication date | Tag
When I delete other types of metadata in bulk (like Series), I realize that other metadata persist to exist (like Description) when I use my eBooks on other platforms.
> I would like to erase all possible metadata, apart from the four mentioned above. |
Well, I am curious about why you don't want the other metadata, but...
I can't think of anything that will remove all unwanted metadata except opening the metadata editor and going through each field and clearing them. To do multiple books, the bulk metadata editor has a search and replace function that should be able to clear one field at a time for all the books.
Other than that, there are the Clean Metadata and Cleaning Comment plugins. Maybe you can convince the authors of these to add options to remove certain metadata.
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2. Clean up the structure
> After the metadata adjustment of my eBooks, I would like to be able to rename all the HTML splited files automatically with their new organization and new name. Example:
From "Dick,Philip K - Counter-clock worldd_split_000.html"
To "Philip K Dick - Counter-Clock World_split_000.html"
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The editor can do bulk renames for files. You select them, specify the prefix and starting index and all the files get renamed. I don't know of a way to do this without opening the books individually.