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Old 07-17-2025, 06:46 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Moonbase59 View Post
It’s unfortunate that Calibre tries to stuff a correctly tagged subtitle into the book title (separated by a ': ').

I never liked that, would have preferred a separate field. But since the "subtitle" is often indeed filled with useless information (series info, or just "Novel"), I mostly also remove it, and never bothered to make an extra column for it.
And when you have multiple colons in the title field? A quick check shows that I have several hundred books where the original title had more than one colon.

Some Aspects of remote healthcare: Managing the gap in rural and remote health care: A review of the current literature

That one at lease correctly formats the title/subtitles.

Then we have Amazon's approach where they love stuffing the series and other useless bits and bobs into the ebook title.

Children of Time: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (The Children of Time Novels): A Novel

Since my Kobo ereaders will display the subtitle—if it is worth saving—I do have a subtitle field to save it into for transfer.
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