[darkmonk]

Hello fellow readers! I have decided to begin using Calibre again after I found a great RegEx to import the metadata from my book titles.

My collection is in the crap format of pdf. I plan on using calibre to bring to them over to Epub. My collection is diverse - and largely inherited. Some are from Project Gutenberg, others from the various free libraries available. When I was less wise, I turned them all into the pdf format. And promptly killed all metadata, although there was little of it anyway.

Anyway, my collection is has the series, title, and author as metadata in their names. I will be importing them into calibre with the above mentioned RegEx, but they number a bit over a thousand. I tried it before - and calibre eventually was spending about an hour a book to import. (OK, not quite that long) So I want to make the process go as fast as possible this time. I've disabled all unnecessary plugins, and the searching for metadata inside files because I don't need it to. But still it takes a lot of time. What else can I do to make the books import faster?

My final issue is that all importing of metadata is done manually. I don't want to have to do that by hand - my titles, authors and series are correct, so I trust the search engine to select the right one. Would you consider adding an automatic way of importing that data?

And just one more question - what fields of the epub format can calibre fill in?

Thanks.