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Old 05-13-2019, 06:26 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
The end goal is not the HTML itself. It's to move the data into individual custom columns.
Maybe the text Tanjamuse has in the long text column can be tin-bashed into the format that calibre uses for its book list metadata copy and paste, visually it looks like this.

Code:
Title               : Quick Start Guide
Title sort          : Quick Start Guide
Author(s)           : John Schember [Schember, John]
Languages           : eng
Timestamp           : 2018-12-21T09:05:24+00:00
Published           : 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Comments            : calibre Quick Start Guide
Read                : Yes
That looks quite close to what she has. Maybe a plugin, that can operate on multiple books, that tin-bashes the long text into metadata copy shape and invokes the existing metadata paste function.

Added : Calibre's metadata paste will only operate on data created by calibre's metadata copy, but a calibre plugin should able to imitate that.

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