Frequently Asked Questions - Page 37

ThePage · 12-15-2010, 05:24 PM

Is there a way to have Calibre show authors in one's chosen order by first or last name and/or straight vs. "comma"'d.

ThePage · 12-15-2010, 05:26 PM

Some of the books I have show the titles in all Caps.

When I download Meta-data I sometimes find that a title has been changed to lower case only.

Is there a way to have Calibre change/restore titles to normal capitalization?

kiwidude · 12-15-2010, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThePage

Some of the books I have show the titles in all Caps.

When I download Meta-data I sometimes find that a title has been changed to lower case only.

Is there a way to have Calibre change/restore titles to normal capitalization?

Yeah, that's one of the default settings that I disagree with. Go to Calibre -> Preferences -> Behaviour and disable the "Overwrite author and title by default when fetching metadata" box to stop that happening.

As for restoring titles that have been changed, select them, bring up the bulk edit metadata dialog and tick the box that says "Change title to title case". It isn't perfect (words like It's will be It'S) but its better than typing them all manually.

chaley · 12-16-2010, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidude

As for restoring titles that have been changed, select them, bring up the bulk edit metadata dialog and tick the box that says "Change title to title case". It isn't perfect (words like It's will be It'S) but its better than typing them all manually.

The It's -> It'S issue was fixed the end of October, in 0.7.25. If it is still broken for you, then I need to look again.

blues36 · 12-16-2010, 11:14 AM

Is there any way to change the default location that Calibre searches for epubs on your device? Possibly have it search all folders instead of just the one Calibre has previously set? I created a few folders on my Sony PRS900 and Calibre isn't able to locate the files in those folders.

Thanks,
Joe

kovidgoyal · 12-16-2010, 11:30 AM

no, you should create your folders under documents/media/books to have calibre search them.

Eduardito · 12-17-2010, 10:12 AM

This question is so silly that's probably why I can't find an answer by searching. Ideally on the author field and author sort field, should author's name be last name first, first name second, or the other way around?

chaley · 12-17-2010, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Eduardito

This question is so silly that's probably why I can't find an answer by searching. Ideally on the author field and author sort field, should author's name be last name first, first name second, or the other way around?

There is no 'ideal' answer, other than "do it how you want".

Author is how you want to see them, and author_sort is the order you want to see them in.

If you decide to keep authors in LN, FN order, then search the forum for "author_sort tweak". There are a lot of posts talking about how you set this up and some of the consequences.

Manichean · 12-17-2010, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eduardito

This question is so silly that's probably why I can't find an answer by searching. Ideally on the author field and author sort field, should author's name be last name first, first name second, or the other way around?

That can be configured entirely the way you like it. By default, Calibre assumes the author field to be "firstname lastname" and the author_sort field to be "lastname, firstname". However, there's a tweak available configuring what Calibre assumes to be the correct content of author_sort, if you edit that, you can set the author field to be "lastname, firstname" and the author_sort field to be the same. If you really wanted, I guess you could also set both fields to be "firstname lastname".

Eduardito · 12-17-2010, 10:33 AM

Thanks for answers guys! I will look over my collection and the way that is more prevalent is the only that I will use. I get OCD about organizing files sometimes. I spent 5 hours last night just going over covers and choosing the best one and trying to make all the covers from the same collections or the same editions when it comes to the same author. I think I spend more time playing with it than reading!

Another question I had was that if when you do a conversion you can set it so it erases the previous file.

ThePage · 12-18-2010, 01:54 PM

A search of it's brings up 256 books of which 6 books have titles starting with It's - all are normal, so I doubt I'll run into this as a problem.

ThePage · 12-18-2010, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Yeah, that's one of the default settings that I disagree with. Go to Calibre -> Preferences -> Behaviour and disable the "Overwrite author and title by default when fetching metadata" box to stop that happening.

As for restoring titles that have been changed, select them, bring up the bulk edit metadata dialog and tick the box that says "Change title to title case". It isn't perfect (words like It's will be It'S) but its better than typing them all manually.

This should also work for the ALL CAPS PROBLEM?

And what about authors names in ALL CAPS?

kiwidude · 12-18-2010, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThePage

This should also work for the ALL CAPS PROBLEM?

And what about authors names in ALL CAPS?

I don't know what your all caps problem is. The suggestion I made solves the issue of your book titles/authors getting overwritten when you retrieve metadata. If your titles/authors were already formatted and containing the content you want, then unchecking that preference ensures they stay that way, rather than getting overwritten. The "problem" lies in the metadata sources, clearly someone decided (inconsistently) that they like titles to be stored with crap casing rather than how they are presented on the book cover which is how I like them.

As for the It's thing. "It's" was just an example word. As far as I remember the problem presented itself with any word that contained an apostrophe, like "don't" etc. When I enquired on the forums about it a while ago (or a ticket, can't remember which) I was told by Kovid it would never be fixed. If it has indeed been improved in that area then great, I have my own tool to rename files before I import them that does a better job of title casing than Calibre used to so haven't tried it since.

DoctorOhh · 12-18-2010, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by chaley

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidude

As for restoring titles that have been changed, select them, bring up the bulk edit metadata dialog and tick the box that says "Change title to title case". It isn't perfect (words like It's will be It'S) but its better than typing them all manually.

The It's -> It'S issue was fixed the end of October, in 0.7.25. If it is still broken for you, then I need to look again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidude

As for the It's thing. "It's" was just an example word. As far as I remember the problem presented itself with any word that contained an apostrophe, like "don't" etc. When I enquired on the forums about it a while ago (or a ticket, can't remember which) I was told by Kovid it would never be fixed. If it has indeed been improved in that area then great

Chaley already responded that this has been fixed. Since that is the case I don't understand the history lesson. Why add to any confusion the OP has in this area.

kiwidude · 12-18-2010, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dwanthny

Chaley already responded that this has been fixed. Since that is the case I don't understand the history lesson. Why add to any confusion the OP has in this area.

I responded because in a later post than Chaley's by the OP (#551) he said made a check specifically for titles with "It's" in it. So I just attempted to clarify my original comment in that the problem hadn't been restricted to just the words "It's" (in case it hadn't been completely resolved as Chaley suggested it has been). And why would I think it might not be completely resolved? Because Kovid told me wouldn't fix it. Lots of complications with multiple languages etc, which is fair enough.

Incidentally from my quick checks, I don't think it has been completely resolved. Try a title name like "Sharpe'S Tiger" and do a Title Case update on it - it won't change. Is the behaviour improved over what it was? Absolutely. But completely fixed? No. So people should be aware they may see the odd quirk when relying on the Title Case function.

12-15-2010, 05:24 PM	#541
ThePage Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 4430 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chicagoland Device: Kindle 4, eBookwise & Literati	Alphatbetic Authors Is there a way to have Calibre show authors in one's chosen order by first or last name and/or straight vs. "comma"'d.

12-15-2010, 05:26 PM	#542
ThePage Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 4430 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chicagoland Device: Kindle 4, eBookwise & Literati	Titles behaviour Some of the books I have show the titles in all Caps. When I download Meta-data I sometimes find that a title has been changed to lower case only. Is there a way to have Calibre change/restore titles to normal capitalization?

12-17-2010, 10:33 AM	#550
Eduardito Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: NookColor	Thanks for answers guys! I will look over my collection and the way that is more prevalent is the only that I will use. I get OCD about organizing files sometimes. I spent 5 hours last night just going over covers and choosing the best one and trying to make all the covers from the same collections or the same editions when it comes to the same author. I think I spend more time playing with it than reading! Another question I had was that if when you do a conversion you can set it so it erases the previous file. Last edited by Eduardito; 12-17-2010 at 10:53 AM.

12-18-2010, 01:54 PM	#551
ThePage Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 4430 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chicagoland Device: Kindle 4, eBookwise & Literati	it'S A search of it's brings up 256 books of which 6 books have titles starting with It's - all are normal, so I doubt I'll run into this as a problem.

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12-16-2010, 11:14 AM	#545
blues36 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: PRS-900, Palm Pre	Is there any way to change the default location that Calibre searches for epubs on your device? Possibly have it search all folders instead of just the one Calibre has previously set? I created a few folders on my Sony PRS900 and Calibre isn't able to locate the files in those folders. Thanks, Joe

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,377 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	no, you should create your folders under documents/media/books to have calibre search them.

12-17-2010, 10:12 AM	#547
Eduardito Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: NookColor	This question is so silly that's probably why I can't find an answer by searching. Ideally on the author field and author sort field, should author's name be last name first, first name second, or the other way around?

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