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compurandom · 05-12-2021, 08:07 AM

Calibre lets you edit the titles in the database directly, either with the edit panel or by double clicking on the title.

If you have a lot of these, you can select all of them (or select one and then use bulk edit), and then use search and replace with search mode set to "regular expression". The regular expression that might work for you would be something like:

search for: ^(\d+)
replace with: \1 -

(Note: trailing spaces on the end of both of those.)

If you do something like this frequently, you can save it. I have a number of saved edits like this for doing things like recapitalizing titles or replacing underscores and dashes with spaces.

05-12-2021, 08:07 AM	#2
compurandom Wizard Posts: 1,014 Karma: 500000 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Rocketbook, kobo aura h2o, kobo forma, kobo libra color	Calibre lets you edit the titles in the database directly, either with the edit panel or by double clicking on the title. If you have a lot of these, you can select all of them (or select one and then use bulk edit), and then use search and replace with search mode set to "regular expression". The regular expression that might work for you would be something like: search for: ^(\d+) replace with: \1 - (Note: trailing spaces on the end of both of those.) If you do something like this frequently, you can save it. I have a number of saved edits like this for doing things like recapitalizing titles or replacing underscores and dashes with spaces.