Importing Series information into Calibre

chango714 · 02-01-2011, 07:21 PM

Ok, I have figured out how to pull in the series name from the file name into Calibre. The file name is 'John Sandborn - Prey 1 - Rules Of Prey'. I import this string in (I turned off searching the file for metadata and reversed and added Series. Hence 'Title - Series - Author' becomes 'Author - Series - Title') and it fills the Series box with 'Prey 1' and the Book number stays at 1.00.

There must be a way, other than to add a hypen between the Series - Book Number I.E. 'prey - 1', to pull in the series number. Especially since we can't seem to get librarything to play well with Calibre. Anybody have any ideas?

Can we change where Calibre searchs from Librarything to Amazon or some other site?

DoctorOhh · 02-02-2011, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by chango714

Ok, I have figured out how to pull in the series name from the file name into Calibre. The file name is 'John Sandborn - Prey 1 - Rules Of Prey'. I import this string in (I turned off searching the file for metadata and reversed and added Series. Hence 'Title - Series - Author' becomes 'Author - Series - Title') and it fills the Series box with 'Prey 1' and the Book number stays at 1.00.

This regex works for this title. Just place it in Preferences - Adding books.

Code:

^((?P<author>([^\-_0-9]+)(?=\s*-\s*)(?!\s*-\s*[0-9.]+)|\b))(\s*-\s*)?((?P<series>[^0-9\-]+)(\s*-\s*)?(?P<series_index>[0-9.]+)\s*-\s*)?(?P<title>[^\-_0-9]+)

chango714 · 02-04-2011, 09:05 AM

Thank you. I'll try this tonite. Appreciate the info. Cheers.

02-01-2011, 07:21 PM	#1
chango714 Chango714 Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: in a house on a street Device: pandigital novel	Importing Series information into Calibre Ok, I have figured out how to pull in the series name from the file name into Calibre. The file name is 'John Sandborn - Prey 1 - Rules Of Prey'. I import this string in (I turned off searching the file for metadata and reversed and added Series. Hence 'Title - Series - Author' becomes 'Author - Series - Title') and it fills the Series box with 'Prey 1' and the Book number stays at 1.00. There must be a way, other than to add a hypen between the Series - Book Number I.E. 'prey - 1', to pull in the series number. Especially since we can't seem to get librarything to play well with Calibre. Anybody have any ideas? Can we change where Calibre searchs from Librarything to Amazon or some other site?

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02-04-2011, 09:05 AM	#3
chango714 Chango714 Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: in a house on a street Device: pandigital novel	Thank you. I'll try this tonite. Appreciate the info. Cheers.