Importing books with different formatting

Stephaneke · 06-10-2011, 05:30 AM

Hello,

i'm new to the forum and I downloaded Calibre about one month ago. Since I have several (+- 1000) ebooks on my computer i started importing them. The problem was that the book names were not always in the same format. (e.g. Author - Series:Title) Books with this format in reversed order were all imported wrong.

Is there a possibility to review all the imported books during import and to easely switch author and title (by the press of a single button or so).

Hints or help would be appreciated,
Stephane

itimpi · 06-10-2011, 06:37 AM

What I do is tell Calibre to add a TODO tag to book when they are added so it is easy to find them later for checking. You can specify any tags to be automatically added via Preferences->Import/Export->Adding Books where there is a field to specify the tags.

If you have a lot of books with Author/ Title switched you can then select all the ones that need changing and hit the Edit Metadata button. On the dialog box that comes up there is a checkbox for switching Author/Title over.

I then do any additional tidying up of metadata and when I am happy I remove the TODO tag.

06-10-2011, 05:30 AM	#1
Stephaneke Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: New NOOK Touch	Importing books with different formatting Hello, i'm new to the forum and I downloaded Calibre about one month ago. Since I have several (+- 1000) ebooks on my computer i started importing them. The problem was that the book names were not always in the same format. (e.g. Author - Series:Title) Books with this format in reversed order were all imported wrong. Is there a possibility to review all the imported books during import and to easely switch author and title (by the press of a single button or so). Hints or help would be appreciated, Stephane

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06-10-2011, 06:37 AM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	What I do is tell Calibre to add a TODO tag to book when they are added so it is easy to find them later for checking. You can specify any tags to be automatically added via Preferences->Import/Export->Adding Books where there is a field to specify the tags. If you have a lot of books with Author/ Title switched you can then select all the ones that need changing and hit the Edit Metadata button. On the dialog box that comes up there is a checkbox for switching Author/Title over. I then do any additional tidying up of metadata and when I am happy I remove the TODO tag.

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