ebook-series-renamer

• ONLY USE ON FOLDERS CONTAINING NOTHING BUT TARGET .MOBI
• HAVE BACKUPS

Adds the name of a book series to the title metadata field of Kindle-formated (.mobi) eBooks so they show up sorted by series name on a Kindle device.

Usage:

./ebook-series-renamer.rb [folder]

Takes the series name from the containing foldername. The expected folder structure looks like this:

├─┬◆ [The Lord of the Rings]
│ ├──◆ The Fellowship Of The Ring.mobi
│ ├──◆ The Two Towers.mobi
│ └──◆ The Return Of The King.mobi
└─┬◆ [Some Other Series]
  ├──◆ Volume One.mobi
  ├──◆ Volume Two.mobi
  └──◆ Volume Three.mobi

Requirements:

• ruby
• "ebook-meta" binary from the calibre project somewhere in PATH. If you install calibre via Homebrew, it's added to your PATH automatically.
• The mobi gem.

$ brew install calibre
$ gem install mobi

Does not (yet):

• do any checks to try to be non-destructive
• do any sorting inside a series
• handle anything besides .mobi
• spider a website and turn it into a perfectly formatted and metadata'd set of Pandoc Markdown source files and prettyprinted eBooks.