Removing prefix from Titles

[dotancohen]

I have many books that I just imported from my filesystem into Calibre with a prefix in the title that I would like to eliminate. For instance, I have about 60 books whose titles begin with "Manual - ". Is there a way to search and replace this string?

As a workaround I could simple rename all the PDF files with Krename and then reimprt them into Calibre. But if there is a way to do the procedure within Calibre I would prefer that.

I looked in Edit Metadata but I don't see anything that would help.

Thanks.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by dotancohen

I have many books that I just imported from my filesystem into Calibre with a prefix in the title that I would like to eliminate. For instance, I have about 60 books whose titles begin with "Manual - ". Is there a way to search and replace this string?

As a workaround I could simple rename all the PDF files with Krename and then reimprt them into Calibre. But if there is a way to do the procedure within Calibre I would prefer that.

I looked in Edit Metadata but I don't see anything that would help.

Thanks.

It's there (on its own tab, but only if you have multiple titles selected)
Sort/filter on title so all the offending titles are together.
Select a few and tap "E"
switch tabs
Now you are ready to replace title
Work on setting your pattern until all the sample read correctly. Click OK to change.
Repeat the replace with another group of books (you have the replace term)

[dotancohen]

Wow, thanks. I completely missed the second tab.

Have a great evening!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by dotancohen

Wow, thanks. I completely missed the second tab.

Have a great evening!

Have FUN

(Don't worry about missing seeing that feature. Calibre has sooooooooo many features that I am supprised the developers remember where they left some (and they have moved from version to version) of them )