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Originally Posted by theducks
IMHO strip (move the data to the proper place) the long title down to the title UNLESS it is needed that way to tie break a tie.
I also have a custom column Subtitle (Kobo's support Subtitle)
THIS IS YOUR LIBRARY
DO IT YOUR WAY. The only reason to be careful, is that your way does not break (fail to get results) 'get Metadata'
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Thats what I do when there is proper book names. Everything gets stripped from the title except that volumes proper name, the series and number are set in their correct field, and out of the title. If needed the plugboard can export in a way that names it identifiable for e readers that cant display metadata.
I'm just mulling around how to handle the ton light novel books that don't have individual names like "Spice and Wolf". There is 10+ books in the series, all without proper individual names.
The vendor has this specific entry listed like this in the title:
Code:
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 2
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 3
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 4
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 5
etc..
Going by the previous precedent the title should be blank since the series and number are already in the right spot and that's all there was to the books name. But that's probably not a good idea so it just ends up being the Series name, and Volume label/number.
I'm assuming that's the best way to go about it? And if so should I make the part after the series name standardized between all works like that instead of leaving it up to the vendor which will often do "Vol. 1", "Volume 1", ": Volume 1" or ", Vol. 1".
And whatever I choose it totally screws up the plugboard for exporting since there is now a bunch of needless overlap with 2 listings for the series.