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honico · 09-03-2009, 12:50 PM

I'm curious, caponesan, what formating did you go with after your February post? Are you still using the Calibre tool? I'm looking at 17,800 titles to fix and clean up to order to add them to my regular collection. I swear this 'to-edit' pile is driving me nuts...it never seems to shrink!

I've also retained the Title - Author.ext format--though, only the last name of the author. But, I'd sure like a better system than I have now--which is taking all the books from...say Larry Niven directory, manually fix each title then batch-fix the horde .txt titles within that directory with my slimware proggy "Text Processor" to change out the European quotes...hyphens and such for the US-Windows equivalent.

Suggestions?

09-03-2009, 12:50 PM	#4
honico Hiebook nerdo Posts: 25 Karma: 40 Join Date: Jun 2006 Device: Hiebook	ebook title format I'm curious, caponesan, what formating did you go with after your February post? Are you still using the Calibre tool? I'm looking at 17,800 titles to fix and clean up to order to add them to my regular collection. I swear this 'to-edit' pile is driving me nuts...it never seems to shrink! I've also retained the Title - Author.ext format--though, only the last name of the author. But, I'd sure like a better system than I have now--which is taking all the books from...say Larry Niven directory, manually fix each title then batch-fix the horde .txt titles within that directory with my slimware proggy "Text Processor" to change out the European quotes...hyphens and such for the US-Windows equivalent. Suggestions?