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Originally Posted by krussell
Relatively new to Calibre (about a year and I now finally have time to dig into it). Currently own a Nook (original). I have imported 566 books into Calibre (all in ePub with about 1/2 coming from Sony (prior reader) and 1/2 from various online bookstores & BN). I have read the Calibre search & replace instructions and am still not certain it can do what I need
1. Remove all series information from all books.
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This is easy. Use .* in series and set to regular expression search mode with the series as search and destination fields.
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2. All other changes to be made in Title field:
Current title field format:
BOOK TITLE (BOOK SERIES NAME then #_)
Some of my series are going beyond #9 and #10 and after do not sort properly in this format. I would like to do the following (in this order). I have tested this change and it then does sort properly and display properly on the unit:
a. Move everything between the () to before the BOOK TITLE
b. Remove all ()
c. Search and replace: "space#" with "_[underscore]"
This allows the series numbers above 9 to sort properly (instead of 1,10,11 etc)
I have started manually making these changes in each book's metadata but would like to avoid making 566 individual changes. Any help would be much appreciated!
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You should probably rethink this. Set your title to the title. Put your series and series_index into their correct fields. Then you can export to the filename you prefer for your device or reader.