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Old 01-16-2018, 08:32 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Timboli View Post
The author name is virtually always like so - Surname, First Name.
So I have to change that to First Name Surname. Would love a button to do that, but there isn't one.
Then, the ebook title usually has descriptive crap in it, and has mixed up case. Titles should always be Titlecase in my view. Would love a button to do that, but there isn't one.
Get the Quality Check plugin for the first, use Edit Metadata in Bulk for the second (there is a 'Change title case to' dropdown & checkbox).

Removing junk like series info from titles can be done with Edit Metadata in Bulk again, with Search and Replace. Takes a bit of regex magic and like with any powerful tool, you may hurt yourself with it, but creating a number of standard regexes make these things pretty easy; most of that stuff has pretty regex-able formats.

If the books you import are in Calibre library format (as in: there is a 'metadata.opf' & 'cover.jpg' with them in the same subdir) Calibre will read the metadata from the OPF file on import; not sure about the cover.
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