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Originally Posted by crnirg
I have descriptions of a couple of books by the same author - I would like to add information about the author to the end of those descriptions after a while - since I would do it with copy-oaste from the web, it would be convenient to keep the text format for clarity.
I hope I have explained well what I want.
Of course, I also learn a little bit about expressions and their applications.
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Ah, so if I read this correctly, you want to append a string to the author names.
Steps as I see them:
- Select books to modify
- 'Bulk edit'
- 'Search and Replace' tab
- Search field: Author
- Search for: $
- Replace with: " (UK)"
- Click 'Apply' (or 'OK', if you're done with the bulk editor)
'$' here means 'end of string', so I am 'replacing the end of the string with a space followed by (UK)'.
This does split the author entries up into multiple. That is, 'Keith Davies' and 'Keith Davies (UK)' are seen as different people, and it'll pick up 'Davies (UK)' as the last name of the second one. They still sort next to each other in the tag browser (which I admit surprised me, as did book details pane showing only 'Keith Davies' and not 'Keith Davies (UK)'). Also, it's important to know that each author in the list will have ' (UK)' appended to their name, not just the list as a whole.
If I wanted to differentiate the editions by nationality, I'd probably put the marker on the title rather than the author. That keeps the books filed under the same author name.
Another option is to use tags, possibly a custom column, for these edition modifiers, then present those next to the title in the book list.