Not Getting Book Description or Series

JHB500 · 12-14-2023, 10:46 AM

During bulk uploads of Metadata, I'm finding that the information for book description, tags, rating, series are being filled in only about 20% of the time. (Actually, series is not ever being filled in as far as I can see.)

In fields to be downloaded, I do have the proper fields checked.
Sources selected are Amazon, Big Book Search, FictionDB, Google, Open Library

Any suggestions?

I used Calibre for a few years and then let it fall by the wayside for the last year, so I'm a bit rusty. I've imported several hundred books in the past few days, catching up on my library. In fact I accidentally duplicated 50+ and the earlier instance of each was fully fleshed out with all fields in most cases. And I definitely didn't manually input all that detail.

JHB500 · 12-14-2023, 10:58 AM

Let me add that most of the books added are part of a series and are titled:

Book Name (XZY Series Book #)

So even if there's a way to extract the series from the book title, that would be helpful.

theducks · 12-14-2023, 11:06 AM

For NEW adds: Preferences adding books is where you switch how and where metadata is read.

For Existing books (avoid re-import)
Bulk mode Metadata edit. REGEX mode .1st to copy from title to target, then clean Title

JHB500 · 12-15-2023, 10:56 AM

@theducks: I'm sorry, but I'm not understanding. Can you expound on this?

In preferences, I do have all the relevant fields selected as part of the meta data import.

I've tried a bulk re-load of metadata. Not sure what you mean by REGEX mode.

theducks · 12-15-2023, 05:00 PM

REGEX = Regular Expression (The Wiki has some info on learning it)
You use REGEX here to create patterns (suitable to your input source) that you can capture and Manipulate.
You have 3 things you want to Capture

Title
Series name
Series Index (numeric only) ignoring 'Book #'

You are going to put \2 (the second captured item) into {series}
You are going to put \3 (the second captured item) into {series-index}
Then you want \1 into {title}

The \# are the captures L->R

12-14-2023, 10:46 AM	#1
JHB500 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kindle App for PC/Android	Not Getting Book Description or Series During bulk uploads of Metadata, I'm finding that the information for book description, tags, rating, series are being filled in only about 20% of the time. (Actually, series is not ever being filled in as far as I can see.) In fields to be downloaded, I do have the proper fields checked. Sources selected are Amazon, Big Book Search, FictionDB, Google, Open Library Any suggestions? I used Calibre for a few years and then let it fall by the wayside for the last year, so I'm a bit rusty. I've imported several hundred books in the past few days, catching up on my library. In fact I accidentally duplicated 50+ and the earlier instance of each was fully fleshed out with all fields in most cases. And I definitely didn't manually input all that detail.

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12-14-2023, 10:58 AM	#2
JHB500 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kindle App for PC/Android	Let me add that most of the books added are part of a series and are titled: Book Name (XZY Series Book #) So even if there's a way to extract the series from the book title, that would be helpful.

12-14-2023, 11:06 AM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,818 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	For NEW adds: Preferences adding books is where you switch how and where metadata is read. For Existing books (avoid re-import) Bulk mode Metadata edit. REGEX mode .1st to copy from title to target, then clean Title

12-15-2023, 10:56 AM	#4
JHB500 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kindle App for PC/Android	@theducks: I'm sorry, but I'm not understanding. Can you expound on this? In preferences, I do have all the relevant fields selected as part of the meta data import. I've tried a bulk re-load of metadata. Not sure what you mean by REGEX mode.

12-15-2023, 05:00 PM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,818 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	REGEX = Regular Expression (The Wiki has some info on learning it) You use REGEX here to create patterns (suitable to your input source) that you can capture and Manipulate. You have 3 things you want to Capture Title Series name Series Index (numeric only) ignoring 'Book #' You are going to put \2 (the second captured item) into {series} You are going to put \3 (the second captured item) into {series-index} Then you want \1 into {title} The \# are the captures L->R