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Originally Posted by mbovenka
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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Thanks for that, will look into those first two.
As for regex, the variation of what turns up in the ebook Title field, is so great, that I doubt it would be workable or even wise to go that route. Though I guess any bracketed content could be button copied to Series field, and then edited if need be.
While the cover.jpg file is indeed there the majority of the time, calibre never seems to use it unless you specifically point it at it. At least, that has been my experience so far.
So all I really want, is a checkbox, to make calibre specifically look at it and use it. Using it would sometimes mean you end up with two cover pages in the resulting file, but better that than no cover.
Cheers