Fandom category

[Tarkin9188]

I use the ffdl plugin to download my fanfiction and have it set to create a fandom column. It works fairly well, but is there a way to keep it from separating fandoms such as Harry Potter; Harry Potter - fandom; Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling or Once Upon a time; Once upon a time(tv).

It's really not a huge problem but it makes it difficult to find stories on my kindle when i use kindle collections .

Also first post YAY

[fidvo]

Originally Posted by Tarkin9188

I use the ffdl plugin to download my fanfiction and have it set to create a fandom column. It works fairly well, but is there a way to keep it from separating fandoms such as Harry Potter; Harry Potter - fandom; Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling or Once Upon a time; Once upon a time(tv).

It's really not a huge problem but it makes it difficult to find stories on my kindle when i use kindle collections .

Also first post YAY

You've just discovered the joy of downloading metadata. Just wait until you start dealing with tags.

The reason why you have multiple fandoms in that field is because that's the way it's stored in the book or on the site where you downloaded it from. At some point, someone typed in "Harry Potter" for one book, and someone else typed in "Harry Potter - fandom" for a different book, without consulting each other to make sure their labels are consistent. There's nothing Calibre or ffdl can do about that.

My suggestion is to never trust downloaded metadata, or the metadata stored in books you import. ALWAYS go in and clean it up yourself afterward. Just re-type whatever you want in the field in the database to make them consistent. Or select all the Harry Potter fanfiction books and use bulk metadata edit to change them all at once.

[cvlowe]

I actually created a custom yes/no column called Meta just to check off any book I've cleaned up the metadata for. With enough books, it can be difficult to keep track of otherwise.

[Tarkin9188]

Originally Posted by fidvo

You've just discovered the joy of downloading metadata. Just wait until you start dealing with tags.

The reason why you have multiple fandoms in that field is because that's the way it's stored in the book or on the site where you downloaded it from. At some point, someone typed in "Harry Potter" for one book, and someone else typed in "Harry Potter - fandom" for a different book, without consulting each other to make sure their labels are consistent. There's nothing Calibre or ffdl can do about that.

My suggestion is to never trust downloaded metadata, or the metadata stored in books you import. ALWAYS go in and clean it up yourself afterward. Just re-type whatever you want in the field in the database to make them consistent. Or select all the Harry Potter fanfiction books and use bulk metadata edit to change them all at once.

Thanks for the info. It shouldn't be to hard to bulk edit, just get's a little tedious when adding new books

[BookJunkieLI]

I haven't played with it much myself but you might take a look at this post in the FFDL plugin thread. Particularly look at the replace_metadata settings shown under the spoiler cut. These are settings that you add to your personal.ini under FFDL's Configure Plugin option.

You'd probably want something along the lines of this:

replace_metadata:
 fandoms=>Harry Potter \-\ fandom=>Harry Potter
 fandoms=>Harry Potter \-\ J. K. Rowling=>Harry Potter
 fandoms=>Once Upon A Time \(TV\)=>Once Upon A Time

fandoms is the custom column, the middle section is the incoming metadata being downloaded, and then the final section is what you want FFDL to convert that fandom to. In other words (Harry Potter - fandom) becomes (Harry Potter).

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by cvlowe

I actually created a custom yes/no column called Meta just to check off any book I've cleaned up the metadata for. With enough books, it can be difficult to keep track of otherwise.

- I also keep a date for when I did it.

BR

[Amalthia]

This may work better:

replace_metadata:
 fandoms=>Harry Potter.*=>Harry Potter
 fandoms=>Once Upon A Time.*=>Once Upon A Time