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Ubiquity · 04-05-2019, 04:30 AM

Hello there, I'm quite new to Calibre. My question is this, I imported into my library a large bunch (counting hundreds) of epub books, which miss the metadata however, so that author and title were distilled using default import template from file names, and it didn't help much. Now the author is set to unknown author, and the title is in form like

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NOVELS 17 - BRADBURY, Ray - Dandelion Wine

Now I'm looking for something (extension?) that would parse the title string, extracts the author puts it to correct form, and leaves the last part as title. The metadata multiedit form does only offer a simple replace using regex in scope of a single field, that's not enough for my case (I need to fix the capitalization also). Thanks for any ideas.

04-05-2019, 04:30 AM	#1
Ubiquity Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2019 Device: Android phone	How do I format metadata from other fields Hello there, I'm quite new to Calibre. My question is this, I imported into my library a large bunch (counting hundreds) of epub books, which miss the metadata however, so that author and title were distilled using default import template from file names, and it didn't help much. Now the author is set to unknown author, and the title is in form like Code: NOVELS 17 - BRADBURY, Ray - Dandelion Wine Now I'm looking for something (extension?) that would parse the title string, extracts the author puts it to correct form, and leaves the last part as title. The metadata multiedit form does only offer a simple replace using regex in scope of a single field, that's not enough for my case (I need to fix the capitalization also). Thanks for any ideas.