Bulk renaming of titles?

[jukin]

Hi, I've tried to search for the info I need but it's hard to express it as a search term. Anyway, I have a Nook Tablet. Those who are familiar with the Nook will know that to add books to shelves, you have to select a shelf and then scroll through all titles till you find the one(s) you want to add. Nook lists title like 'The House' under 'T' rather than 'H'. This means a lot of scrolling when you need to add such titles and you have a lot of books on the Nook.

Sorry for the long winded preamble. My question is, is there anyway that I can do bulk title edits in Calibre that would allow me to move the word 'The' to the end of the title i.e. xxxxxx, The?

With MicroSD card support, you can potentially have a ton of books on your Nook but with their primitive way of adding books it can become a real pain.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[Dullahir]

Tell me if this might be what you're looking for. There is a tweak within Calibre called 'Control Sorting of Titles and Series in the Library Display"

The description:

"ID: title_series_sorting

Control title and series sorting in the library view. If set to
'library_order', the title sort field will be used instead of the title.
Unless you have manually edited the title sort field, leading articles such as
The and A will be ignored. If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be
sorted as-is (sort by title instead of title sort). For example, with
library_order, The Client will sort under 'C'. With strictly_alphabetic, the
book will sort under 'T'.
This flag affects Calibre's library display. It has no effect on devices. In
addition, titles for books added before changing the flag will retain their
order until the title is edited. Double-clicking on a title and hitting return
without changing anything is sufficient to change the sort."

Basically, I think what this means is with Library_order chosen, the books will be displayed as 'Lord of the Rings, The' and with 'Strictly_Alphabetic', they will be displayed as 'The Lord of the Rings'.


Additionally, if this doesn't work, I'm sure you could do a search within the Calibre Library to find all instances of the word 'The' in the title. Monotonous, I'm aware, but perhaps it might help if all else fails. Good luck.

[jukin]

Thanks for your reply Dullahir, I'll take a look at that.

[Dullahir]

You are quite welcome, Jukin. Pease be sure to keep us posted.