Could the Series column be case-sensitive in series names?

dunhill · 03-23-2025, 03:06 PM

A friend of mine asked me this because he has a series in his Calibre library called The Vampire Diaries, and it shows two authors: Anne Rice and L. J. Smith.
In reality, it's not a single series, but two different ones.
One is called The Vampire Diaries, by Anne Rice, and the other is The vampire diaries, by L. J. Smith, with a lowercase v.
Calibre can't differentiate between Vampire Diaries and vampirics. To him, it's all the same, either one or the other, but all the same, when in reality it could allow the V and the v to be different things.
Calibre does this in the title column because it makes sense that there should be a word that can be either uppercase or lowercase. Why not in the Series titles so we can call one The Vampire Diaries and the other The vampire diaries?

JSWolf · 03-23-2025, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by dunhill

A friend of mine asked me this because he has a series in his Calibre library called The Vampire Diaries, and it shows two authors: Anne Rice and L. J. Smith.
In reality, it's not a single series, but two different ones.
One is called The Vampire Diaries, by Anne Rice, and the other is The vampire diaries, by L. J. Smith, with a lowercase v.
Calibre can't differentiate between Vampire Diaries and vampirics. To him, it's all the same, either one or the other, but all the same, when in reality it could allow the V and the v to be different things.
Calibre does this in the title column because it makes sense that there should be a word that can be either uppercase or lowercase. Why not in the Series titles so we can call one The Vampire Diaries and the other The vampire diaries?

Your friend has the series name wrong for Anne Rice. The correct series is Vampire Chronicles. Once he fixes the series for Anne Rice, he'll be OK.

kovidgoyal · 03-23-2025, 10:31 PM

titles of books and titles of series are both not case sensitive, this is specified in the calibre database schema and cant be changed. They are case insensitive for the same reason that filenames in windows and macos are case insensitive -- namely that humand often make mistakes with casing when typing.

dunhill · 03-24-2025, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

titles of books and titles of series are both not case sensitive, this is specified in the calibre database schema and cant be changed. They are case insensitive for the same reason that filenames in windows and macos are case insensitive -- namely that humand often make mistakes with casing when typing.

Thank you, as always!

03-23-2025, 03:06 PM	#1
dunhill Guru Posts: 888 Karma: 409970 Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Device: moon+ reader, kindle paperwhite	Could the Series column be case-sensitive in series names? A friend of mine asked me this because he has a series in his Calibre library called The Vampire Diaries, and it shows two authors: Anne Rice and L. J. Smith. In reality, it's not a single series, but two different ones. One is called The Vampire Diaries, by Anne Rice, and the other is The vampire diaries, by L. J. Smith, with a lowercase v. Calibre can't differentiate between Vampire Diaries and vampirics. To him, it's all the same, either one or the other, but all the same, when in reality it could allow the V and the v to be different things. Calibre does this in the title column because it makes sense that there should be a word that can be either uppercase or lowercase. Why not in the Series titles so we can call one The Vampire Diaries and the other The vampire diaries?

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03-23-2025, 10:31 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,331 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	titles of books and titles of series are both not case sensitive, this is specified in the calibre database schema and cant be changed. They are case insensitive for the same reason that filenames in windows and macos are case insensitive -- namely that humand often make mistakes with casing when typing.

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