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Old 08-03-2019, 11:56 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by DaltonST View Post
Even better, let Calibre update the Translator and Original Title custom columns automatically for you instead of doing it manually.
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Does this still work in 3.46? And the info to populate the columns -- where does it get from? I checked a few books with translator listed on amazon's site but the columns were not populated (and original title is usually not listed on amazon).

Edit: Finally got it to work. Lesson learnt:
- type of column matters (according to the tooltip: long text column - I had the translator column as comma-separated text with name checkbox checked)
- in the end I figured the info is extracted from inside the epub files
- order of lookup text matters e.g. earlier elements should not be shorthand versions of latter, otherwise part of the text will be included in the title

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