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Originally Posted by DrJanet
Oh, too bad.  Do you have any plans for continuing to work on Calibre and possibly modifying this in the future? If so, I have some other UI suggestions I would be happy to share with you, if you like. It is really a very nice piece of software that is certainly worth improving upon. Thank you. |
You have several options:
First, there is manual changing, but that's not viable.
Second, you can rewrite the open code.
Third, you can bulk preprocess your books to rename them to the way that calibre prefers (firstname lastname). That's probably the easiest for you. I suggest
Booksorter. I've also used batch files to do this job. I made a temporary copy of the books, bulk renamed and then imported them.
Fourth, you can use calibredb to output the opf file metadata, process it with SED to fix your author names, and use calibredb again to bring it back in. I did this on thousands of books, and it's slow, but it works.
BTW, you wrote"Of course I would love to be able to set - as a delimiter and direct Caliber to put the series, and series order into other fields, but that's for the future wishlist."
I'm not sure if you realize it, but it's quite easy to automatically put the series and series_index into other fields using the regex expression in Add/Save. A search on "regex" here will give you expressions to match your current filename format and bring in those fields correctly.
Good Luck.