How can I search specifically for authors FN LN in the Author Column

[crissman]

How can I isolate all the Authors in the authors column that are Fn Ln so that I can then select them and use the Quality Check Plugin

I like them to be in the format Ln, Fn and can do this easily with Quality Check.

looking for a simpler quicker way other then going through all the authors in the Tag Browser and selecting them and adding them to a virtual library manually then running the quality check plugin > fix >swap author Fn Ln <->Ln,Fn

I found a search regex code on the forums

author:,

to do this but for Ln, Fn not the reverse searching for FN LN with no comma?

After reading https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=125428 I found the search option for no commas in a author field and I notice that after running it, it finds and "Marks" the books. Is there a way to isolate the marked books, or a method to create a virtual library for these?

Nevermind, figured it out, after running the search in Quality Check, I then used the create virtual library, and the search expression was already there "marked:authors_no_commas"

Such a wonderful plugin Quality Check is.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by crissman

How can I isolate all the Authors in the authors column that are Fn Ln so that I can then select them and use the Quality Check Plugin

I like them to be in the format Ln, Fn and can do this easily with Quality Check.

looking for a simpler quicker way other then going through all the authors in the Tag Browser and selecting them and adding them to a virtual library manually then running the quality check plugin > fix >swap author Fn Ln <->Ln,Fn

I found a search regex code on the forums

author:,

to do this but for Ln, Fn not the reverse searching for FN LN with no comma?

After reading https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=125428 I found the search option for no commas in a author field and I notice that after running it, it finds and "Marks" the books. Is there a way to isolate the marked books, or a method to create a virtual library for these?

Nevermind, figured it out, after running the search in Quality Check, I then used the create virtual library, and the search expression was already there "marked:authors_no_commas"

Such a wonderful plugin Quality Check is.

Pass1 Discover using the QC PI check function
Select all (marked results)
Fass2 Fix using the QC PI 'Fix' function. Note Fix Flips whatever was there and can not fix a mixed bag: Smith, Tom & Mike Jones. One of those will be wrong

[crissman]

Originally Posted by theducks

Pass1 Discover using the QC PI check function
Select all (marked results)
Fass2 Fix using the QC PI 'Fix' function. Note Fix Flips whatever was there and can not fix a mixed bag: Smith, Tom & Mike Jones. One of those will be wrong

I agree, I found that creating a virtual library using the results from running the QC search (search expression was already entered into the "Create Virtual Library Field) I then was able to select all instances and ran the fix for swapping the names, since the results were isolated in the virtual library rather then just "marked" in the main library all the results were not a mixed bag, but in a consistent format.

Worked like a Charm

Now just looking for a quick way of visually comparing the contents of duplicate books to be able to remove the poorly formatted ones from the Retail-Like quality. Current I am viewing every entry and checking to see if they have properly formatted ToC and that the contents of a book are as retail like as possible and marking that in custom columns. in order to remove poorly formatted duplicates. I use the plug in to "Find Duplicates" to isolate the duplicates.. but it is a slow process,

I had to restore from a very old backup zip that was all messed up. I had lost all due to a HDD failure and a newer backup file was corrupted
Originally I manually fixed and correct each item which took me the better part of a year to do this and would rather not spend that amount of time on this again to recreate it.

I have been finding a lot of new ideas with the help of some very good people here on Mobilereads


crissman

[crissman]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@crissman - my post is in the wrong thread - I'll get a mod to remove it - sorry

BR

At least I am not the only one to do that

crissman