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Old 03-03-2019, 11:23 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by excaliber View Post
@BetterRed: Thanks that did help!

I could extract the authors from the title field like this:

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it worked well only if there were no other numbers in the title field.

Keeping only the right title was also complicated and didn't go well either.
You did pretty well for a 'first-timer'

I prefer to get it sorted before I add the books. Then I can use a different techniques & tools to wrangle file names into patterns that conform to a specific templates. And it means I can isolate edge cases for individual editing once they're in calibre

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