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Old 11-30-2023, 10:54 PM   #1200
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Looking for a method to transfer content from a book to the series notes

A couple of years ago I had asked the question as to whether it was possible to add info to series. At the time it wasn't possible so I created a "special" TEXT book with series number 9999999 (highest number possible) and gave them the author (and title) called Series Information.

I see now with version 7 of Calibre it provides exactly what I was wanting back them. So now the question.

How to move the content of those TEXT books into the notes for each series. I have the actual sequence worked out. In english it would be:
1. Manage series
2. Select highest series number, open file and copy content (generally no more than 10-20 lines but there are 2 series with just over 1000 lines (Dr Who and Star Trek Universes).
3. Insert that content into the notes section for the selected series.
4. Possibly delete that TEXT book, This may be something I could do manually as if I try to create code and it doesn't work I've just lost my info.
5. Part of the TEXT book also contains a "http link" to the source info for that series, so even copying part of that content to the link portion for series, again more of a wish than absolute need.

What I was looking on the forum for was a macro recorder (not yet knowing if soemthing like that exists or if keystrokes are recordable) and stumbled on this which seems it might achieve what I need.

So I'm not asking for someone to give me the solution, I would like to try to create it myself. But some guidance and I suppose the first question is. Does this "Action Chains" plugin have this sort of capability?

Thanks for the replies (in advance)
Terry
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