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Another calibre question
HI, I have a calibre conversion question fandom people might understand better than MobileRead forumers.
I had the fanfiction downloader program called Graffer installed on my comp. I was happy with it because it would download fics from multiple sources and produced clean html files. Unfortunately it's creator gave up on the program and it is no longer updated, and it has stopped working for several major archives.
My work on converting my fics via calibre is slow, ad I often want to chuck my comp out the window, that's how frustrated calibre makes me feel. I was expecting import and conversion to be fairly straightforward, but calibre kept messing up the authors. I finally loked at the html coding and discovered that Graffer added a line in the metadata section which calibre would read as author name, but was actually the name of the programmer: <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' />
I wet to MobileRead to see if I can find a way to change this line in the html file automatically through bulk convert, but couldn't figure out the instructions or the regexes. I've been having a back and forth conversation with a member who doesn't understand what I'm after, so does anyone here know how to set up calibre so that it changes the programmer's name into the correct author name for selected ebooks in the actual html file, not just in the metadata?
I had the fanfiction downloader program called Graffer installed on my comp. I was happy with it because it would download fics from multiple sources and produced clean html files. Unfortunately it's creator gave up on the program and it is no longer updated, and it has stopped working for several major archives.
My work on converting my fics via calibre is slow, ad I often want to chuck my comp out the window, that's how frustrated calibre makes me feel. I was expecting import and conversion to be fairly straightforward, but calibre kept messing up the authors. I finally loked at the html coding and discovered that Graffer added a line in the metadata section which calibre would read as author name, but was actually the name of the programmer: <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' />
I wet to MobileRead to see if I can find a way to change this line in the html file automatically through bulk convert, but couldn't figure out the instructions or the regexes. I've been having a back and forth conversation with a member who doesn't understand what I'm after, so does anyone here know how to set up calibre so that it changes the programmer's name into the correct author name for selected ebooks in the actual html file, not just in the metadata?
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So let's go with actual examples:
I start with Harry Potter > Fics > Individual authors >agelade
The stories are:
01 Darling.htm
02 Daring Coda The Same.htm
03 Darling Coda The Portrait.htm
04 Darling Coda 12th August, 2004.htm
05 Darling Coda The Notion of Bluffing.htm
06 Darling Coda Stars
Upon importing end conversion, I end up with
Calibre Library > agelade > Darling by agelade (272) > Darling by agelade - agelade.epub
Calibre Library > agelade > Darling Coda_ 12th August, 2004 by agela (275) > Darling Coda_ 12th August, 2004 by agela - agelade.epub
Calibre Library > agelade > Darling Coda_ Stars by agelade (277) > Darling Coda_ Stars by agelade - agelade.epub
Calibre Library > agelade > Darling Coda_ The Notion of Bluffing by (276) > Darling Coda_ The Notion of Bluffing by - agelade.epub
Calibre Library > agelade > Darling Coda_ The Portrait by agelade (274) > Darling Coda_ The Portrait by agelade - agelade.epub
Calibre Library > agelade > Darling Coda_ The Same by agelade (273) > Darling Coda_ The Same by agelade - agelade.epub
So I have to rename all my fics BEFORE importing to calibre following a certain scheme (which is what, exactly? How do I organize my files so that calibre populates authors and series in a correct way? And that is doubling the work; it was supposed to automate things for me, not make me work twice as hard to fix it before conversion. What if I had imported my entire Fandoms flder???)