Is there a way to remove text from Title with regex

[LadyKate]

I'm looking at around 2300 titles with the series in brackets (series info).

I would like to know if there is a way to remove text from the title using regex
something like
([A-Za-z0-9]+)

It would be faster lol.

[unboggling]

What does it look like? A sample would help.

[Adoby]

Yes, it is possible to remove brackets from titles, using regexp.

I would suggest that you remove all series information from the titles, and store it in the fields intended for that purpose. That can be done using bulk metadata search and replace with regexp as well.

It is bad to store series information in the title, you will most likely change your mind about formatting and want to change it in the future. Metadata lookup may fail, because the title has extra information. Also it becomes difficult to update if you have the series information stored both in the intended fields and the title, and plug-ins that are used to manipulate series information most likely don't handle the title.

If you want the series information in the title or the filename on the device, then you can use a plugboard and/or a save template to add that "on the fly".

[LadyKate]

Lol the title and tag fields are horrid in these books. The title including thing like
title text of actual title (series info):A Novel (language info)
The tags are even worse lol. Why put the series info in the tag argh not to mention how many ways do they need to string together tags. I try to cleanup tags but every time I add books I get a ton of horrid tags... really bad. How many ways can you tag a novel that is Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction, Detective etc.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by LadyKate

Lol the title and tag fields are horrid in these books. The title including thing like
title text of actual title (series info):A Novel (language info)
The tags are even worse lol. Why put the series info in the tag argh not to mention how many ways do they need to string together tags. I try to cleanup tags but every time I add books I get a ton of horrid tags... really bad. How many ways can you tag a novel that is Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction, Detective etc.

Hah, I just ignore tags altogether. And I fix up the series + title as I import books; it's much more manageable that way.

[LadyKate]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Hah, I just ignore tags altogether. And I fix up the series + title as I import books; it's much more manageable that way.

I use tags to find a book in the same "genre" or with the same "feel" to read. It helps when finding a book for someone else in the household to read.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by LadyKate

I use tags to find a book in the same "genre" or with the same "feel" to read. It helps when finding a book for someone else in the household to read.

I do use tags, some of them, but only ones I specifically add. And I add them as I get them, so it remains manageable -- possibly because I started this way from the beginning.

I don't like conforming to someone else's fool idea of what kind of ridiculous tags to put on most books.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I do use tags, some of them, but only ones I specifically add. And I add them as I get them, so it remains manageable -- possibly because I started this way from the beginning.

I don't like conforming to someone else's fool idea of what kind of ridiculous tags to put on most books.

(Lately) The publishers seem to be the worst. Every possible keyword that can be applied to the book, however thin the relevance

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by theducks

(Lately) The publishers seem to be the worst. Every possible keyword that can be applied to the book, however thin the relevance

keywords I have recently deleted include "book" "ebook" and what seems to be their all-time favorite: "FIC0000".