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Calibre
Calibre is a cross-platform, free and open-source software suite for e-book management. It supports various formats aswell as conversion between them.
Usage
Adding a Plugin
A plugin by a third party can be added by selecting a .zip archive - usually
named <plugin name>_plugin.zip - under Preferences, Plugins, Load plugin from
file.
Exporting Books
Books can be exported by selecting them and pressing Save to disk.
After selecting a path the books will be saved there.
Preferences for this can be set under Preferences and Saving books to disk.
Especially the creation of separate image and metadata files are often of
interest.
The template defines the path structure of the saved books.
A simple template that will create the following structure is
{author_sort:re( &,;)}/{title}/{authors}_-_{title}.
thomas_schickinger;_angelika_steger/diskrete_strukturen_2/thomas_schickinger_&_angelika_steger_-_diskrete_strukturen_2.pdf
This assumes the sort author names and sort titles are set as described in the following section.
Changing the Default Author and Title Sort
Under Preferences and Tweaks the corresponding settings to change the title
and author sort name can be found.
Author sort name algorithm defines the author sort name.
By setting author_sort_copy_method = 'copy' the author sort name is the same
as the author name.
After this setting has been changed right click Authors in the navigation bar
on the left side and press Manage Authors.
Then press Recalculate all author sort values for the change to take effect.
Control sorting of titles and series in the library display defines the sort
titles.
Setting title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic' will use the standard
title and wont make articles of titles suffixes.
Afterwards select all books, right-click and select Edit metadata in bulk
under Edit metadata.
Then check the box update title sort and press Ok to update all sort titles.
This entry is based on two posts on mobileread - one regarding the sort author name and the other regarding the sort title.