Question about adding books.

[Dullahir]

When adding books and selecting 'Read from Book Title' instead of 'Read from Metadata', what would be the proper search function to check which books have the author's first and last name as the title, and the book title proper in the author's sort?

Dead Witch Walking did not write Kim Harrison. ;P

I assume I could add two different groups of books, the first group containing author's names then the book title, such as 'Neil Gaiman - Coraline' and adding the sequence

(?P<author>.+) - (?P<title>[^_]+) instead of (?P<title>.+) - (?P<author>[^_]+) and then adding another group of books that have the book name first and then the title, such as 'Coraline - Neil Gaiman' and reverting to the previous sequence, but is there an easier way?

[Adoby]

It is possible to use advanced features in regular expressions to make them handle variations. For instance:

Author - Title
Author - Seriesname Series index - Title

It is more difficult to detect whether it is a Name or a Title.

It is usually much easier to select and add groups of books that use the same naming pattern. And adapt the pattern for each case.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Dullahir

I assume I could add two different groups of books, the first group containing author's names then the book title, such as 'Neil Gaiman - Coraline' and adding the sequence

(?P<author>.+) - (?P<title>[^_]+) instead of (?P<title>.+) - (?P<author>[^_]+) and then adding another group of books that have the book name first and then the title, such as 'Coraline - Neil Gaiman' and reverting to the previous sequence, but is there an easier way?

The way you describe it is accurate. You could make it easier by using the Quick Preferences plugin (find it in this list of plugins). This allows you to save these expressions and quickly change from one to another without opening preferences.