Metadata Parse Reverses Title/Author Academic Texts

johnelle · 08-21-2015, 07:06 AM

My library has a mix of general reading and academic books. One of the behaviors that I have noticed is that when I load an academic book Calibre parses out the title and the author correctly but reverses the fields (i.e. author in title; title in author). This happens more than 50% of the time for academic books. Fairly rare for general reading books.

Sure would be nice if this could be improved because I have to do two passes on the metadata for each (academic) book.

(sorry if this is in the wrong place---don't see a feedback section)

kovidgoyal · 08-21-2015, 07:21 AM

You can control that by changing the expression in Preferences->Adding Books, assuming the metadata is being read from the filename.

BetterRed · 08-21-2015, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnelle

Sure would be nice if this could be improved because I have to do two passes on the metadata for each (academic) book.

(sorry if this is in the wrong place---don't see a feedback section)

@johnelle - this optional plugin should help ==>> Quick Preferences

The entire MR Calibre forum is the feedback section.

"Official" Bug reports and Enhancement requests can be lodged here ==>> Bugs : calibre

BR

08-21-2015, 07:06 AM	#1
johnelle Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 2137668 Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Groton, MA Device: Kindle app on Samsung Tab	Metadata Parse Reverses Title/Author Academic Texts My library has a mix of general reading and academic books. One of the behaviors that I have noticed is that when I load an academic book Calibre parses out the title and the author correctly but reverses the fields (i.e. author in title; title in author). This happens more than 50% of the time for academic books. Fairly rare for general reading books. Sure would be nice if this could be improved because I have to do two passes on the metadata for each (academic) book. (sorry if this is in the wrong place---don't see a feedback section)

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08-21-2015, 07:21 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,353 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You can control that by changing the expression in Preferences->Adding Books, assuming the metadata is being read from the filename.

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