Comment 2 for bug 1523253

Hi Kovid,

Thanks for your rapid response...but I have to tell you that you are
confused.

Please see attached screen shot of bulk metadata editing dialogue. Please
note lowest line on screen shot that refers to Series:, Automatically
Numbering Books, Force Start With: fields. The Force Start With: field does
not accept the necessary decimal places.

This is the latest version of Calibre - 2.45 but this gap has been true for
all previous versions that I have used. Great product by the way and I am
managing a 7k plus book / magazine library with it. I have used the bulk
edit feature extensively to number series of magazines. It works fine for
for bulk numbering mags with single numbers eg. Numbers 151 to 201.
However, if you want to represent volume and number eg. 20.01 for Vol 20
Number 01 you can only do it with single metadata edit, not with bulk
edit. I want to number Volume 20 Numbers 01 to 06 for example but I cannot
type 20.01 into the Force Start With: field.

This is only a small thing but would move Calibre even closer to being a
perfect product.

I do know what I am talking about, honestly...I have worked in IT /
Application Development in various roles and companies for 30 odd years :-)

On 6 December 2015 at 18:09, Kovid Goyal <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm confused. As far as I know, the bulk metadata dialog does not allow
> setting of series numbers at all. This is natural, since that dialog is
> meant to apply the same value to all books, and that makes no sense for
> series number. So I dont understand what you are asking for.
>
> status invalid
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Invalid
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523253
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> Title:
> Bulk Metadata editing - Series Number
>
> Status in calibre:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> Single Book Metadata editing supports a Series Number of eg. 20.01,
> which one who use for a Volume and Issue Number for a magazine such as
> Volume 20 Issue 01.
>
> When bulk Metadata editing, the Series Number does not allow a decimal
> point so the same format of Series Number cannot be updated,
> incrementing the number and has to be added manually to each magazine
> in the series.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Graham
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Kind regards,

Graham Dickinson