[DarkLordCorwin]

Ok, so I after having to reset my Kindle I decided before I started sideloading a ton of books onto the SD card(yes, you heard me right, I'm going to figure out how to digitally load a metric ton on there) I would get around to organizing my Calibre Library and fixing all the metadata. Along the way I wanted to change how I was dealing with series numbers so that they would show up and discovered after some google searches the plugboards. What a wonderful feature.

That's when tragedy struck. After an hour or two of searching various threads and sites, I believed I had the code string I needed for my plugboard to get my series to display the way I wanted. Alas, it was not to be. So I tried 3 other things. And I just couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. So I came. Made it through about 3 pages before my brain started melting and dribbling out my ear. At that point I figured out I needed to ask for help.

So please, oh great plugboard gurus. What have I done wrong?

I wanted my books to display on my Kindle Fire (5th generation) as such:

The Honor of Violet Fate
ISSTH [03] - Er Gen

and

Fake Title
Bricks [02] - John Smith (for one word series that need no acronyms)(If that's possible why still
doing acronyms for the longer series titles)


First I tried using this

{#stripped_series:lookup(.\s,#initials,.,#shortened,series)}{series_index:>2s|[|] - }{authors}

and when that didn't work, I tried

{series:|| series }{series_index:>2s|[|] - }{authors}

and when that didn't work either, I tried

{series:|| series }{series_index:>2s|| by }{authors}

at least I think I tried that last one, I might have fiddled with a different one.
I tried restarting my kindle a few times. Used the same book for all attempts, part of a small series, one of the few I had already gotten around to fixing the metadata on.


Is what I'm trying to do possible? Or do I need to settle for something a little simpler but still effective? Is the code wrong in general or in particular for the device I am using?