Parse book titles to fill in series in Calibre library

Marcika · 11-25-2009, 03:41 PM

I just updated my Calibre install to 0.6.24 and played around with the improved metadata download and social metadata - I really like it! One problem I have is that the auto-downloader doesn't recognize a lot of my books. I think this is because back when I imported my library into Calibre, I left the book series as part of the book title in the database.

So I am trying to clean up my Calibre library and change this sort of database entry

Title: "Series of Stuff 015 - Stuff's Bride"; Series: ""

into this:

Title: "Stuff's Bride"; Series: "Series of Stuff [15]"

Is there an elegant way to do this for several hundred books (a way to manipulate the library with regular expressions, maybe?) or would I have to do this by hand?

kovidgoyal · 11-25-2009, 05:35 PM

Not after you've imported the books. You can use regular expressions to process filenames during the process, but not once the books are in the library.

11-25-2009, 03:41 PM	#1
Marcika Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Tablet PC (Vista)	Parse book titles to fill in series in Calibre library I just updated my Calibre install to 0.6.24 and played around with the improved metadata download and social metadata - I really like it! One problem I have is that the auto-downloader doesn't recognize a lot of my books. I think this is because back when I imported my library into Calibre, I left the book series as part of the book title in the database. So I am trying to clean up my Calibre library and change this sort of database entry Title: "Series of Stuff 015 - Stuff's Bride"; Series: "" into this: Title: "Stuff's Bride"; Series: "Series of Stuff [15]" Is there an elegant way to do this for several hundred books (a way to manipulate the library with regular expressions, maybe?) or would I have to do this by hand?

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11-25-2009, 05:35 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not after you've imported the books. You can use regular expressions to process filenames during the process, but not once the books are in the library.

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