04-16-2024, 11:12 AM | #1 |
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Single author with "and" in name
Is there a way for Calibre to keep a single author name with the word "and" in it instead of automatically changing it to two separate names separated by the "&"?
For example, the author name is "Boots and Cats" but when adding their books to Calibre it changes to authors "Boots" & "Cats". |
04-16-2024, 11:28 AM | #2 |
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There is always an outlier that will bite us.
I know I have to hand correct Joe and Jane Smith -Joe Smith & Jane Smith (now 2 properly named authors) in the Metadata editor. can you fix it there or is it auto corrected. Another idea is change and to _and_ (not horrific visually) |
04-16-2024, 11:33 AM | #3 |
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It is autocorrected when I change it in the metadata editor. I also tried to change it in the tag browser but it also autocorrects.
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04-16-2024, 11:41 AM | #4 | |
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04-16-2024, 03:38 PM | #5 |
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I think I found it. There's a tweak for Splitting multiple author names. I edited to remove "and" from it and it seems to have solved it.
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04-16-2024, 03:54 PM | #7 |
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I edited the tweak, edited the specific author in question, and then reverted the tweak back and it kept that one author how I wanted it instead of autocorrecting back.
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04-18-2024, 02:12 PM | #8 |
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Boots and Cats sounds like a waste as an author's name. Make a nice title.
A little change from "Puss in Boots". |
04-18-2024, 05:01 PM | #9 |
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I've found the using the + (Plus) sign works good for those instances of company names in the author field where I don't want it split. For example Johnson and Johnson in my library is Johnson + Johnson. Might be easier to cope with.
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