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So, I have a Calibre library with book titles like this:
Series: Index) BookName as well as: Series: Index: BookName and some (very few): BookName I cannot find a way to completely remove the series and index so that the book name is easily readable on my Kobo. (I have recently discovered a plugin that allows me to send the series over as well, so this removes the need for the series in title) I found the metadata plugboards, however, I cannot get this to work, mainly because I cannot figure out how to interpret the different tag after Index, and thus have not figured out a code to do either. ![]() |
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Your Calibre Library TITLE column has series info ![]() You can use BULK mode Metadata edit to (re)move data in mass (selected records) ALWAYS Backup you Library (folder) before starting. THERE IS NO UNDO. I suggest making a test library and practicing. You work on one (source) field at a time and optionally, select a different destination field. There is a TEST section, keep at the pattern until you see EXACT results. Now to the Template Language (there is a section in Help) { } is a calibre fields contents Stuff outside is a Literal (unless it is a Program code) {title} - {series} the <space>-<space> the literal between the title and series. This template is used in the Plugboard, send to device or Folder and even some places in Bulk metadata edit |
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Finally got round to this - (lol)
I did a bulk metadata edit with regular expression of `.*: (\d|\d.\d)\)` and then just replaced it with nothing. That seems to work fine, aside from a couple which had special characters in the series name. |
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Finally managed to get around to doing this - lol.
I just did a bulk metadata search and used the regular expression Code:
.*: (\d|\d\.\d)\) This worked fine except for where there were special characters (' etc) Not quite sure how the templates were supposed to work in the search. |
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Chalut o/
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To make your life easier in the future, I recommend Mass Search/Replace plugin, which will allow you to launch in 1 click this cleaning.
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