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Turt99 · 06-07-2010, 08:22 AM

I'm looking to edit the metadata on all my books, The download bulk feature works great but now I need to clean up the downloaded information and since my Kobo doesn't do collections I'm looking to add the series name to the beginning of the title.

For example I've been putting

Enders Saga 01 - Enders Game

This way I know the correct order of the books and they are all located together, the problem I'm having is that when I say edit individually I get an edit window for each but the window is taking 10 seconds each book (might be my computer Aspire One Netbook) so each book take the 10 seconds to load the screen then I need to look up the series information (Amazon.com or Wikipedia) making it very time consuming. Plus I have hit the Next button several times when I wasn't finished with the book so I'll need to go through all the books again to validate I guess. I was wondering if there was a way to edit the data in a spreadsheet layout?

I saw somewhere that there are command line controls maybe I could export a spreadsheet of the current data make some changes and then write a script to push it back in?

Its not as simple as manipulating the current data since some of the books don't have the real series information currently.

06-07-2010, 08:22 AM	#1
Turt99 Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 14 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Updating Metadata in Bulk I'm looking to edit the metadata on all my books, The download bulk feature works great but now I need to clean up the downloaded information and since my Kobo doesn't do collections I'm looking to add the series name to the beginning of the title. For example I've been putting Enders Saga 01 - Enders Game This way I know the correct order of the books and they are all located together, the problem I'm having is that when I say edit individually I get an edit window for each but the window is taking 10 seconds each book (might be my computer Aspire One Netbook) so each book take the 10 seconds to load the screen then I need to look up the series information (Amazon.com or Wikipedia) making it very time consuming. Plus I have hit the Next button several times when I wasn't finished with the book so I'll need to go through all the books again to validate I guess. I was wondering if there was a way to edit the data in a spreadsheet layout? I saw somewhere that there are command line controls maybe I could export a spreadsheet of the current data make some changes and then write a script to push it back in? Its not as simple as manipulating the current data since some of the books don't have the real series information currently.