Ebook File Naming Conventions
I m almost tempted to write a little book file packager that lets me bundle an electronic catalog card with each file regardless of the text s actual format but that s not going to be very portable.
Ebook file naming conventions. 9780123456789 epub with no hyphens if you do not have an isbn for your ebook the file name should be. For example november 12 2012 appears as 2012 11 12. Start with your general keywords and then moved to the specific keywords within every file so that everything can be found and ordered in a logical manner.
To maintain the numeric order when file names include numbers it is important to include the zero for numbers 0 9. My ebook collection has been growing quite rapidly after i decided books were a more rewarding form of entertainment for me than television a couple of months ago. Not only will this make it easy for you to know what each file is it will also allow you easily adapt any scripts find replace grep or regex you regularly use to any book you are working on.
Whether you are using indesign to convert books to epub or creating epubs from word or html you should consider adopting some consistent naming conventions for files. Personally mine is set up like this. The first part in a filename is always the date in a yyyy mm dd format.
This is the same thinking that needs to go into the best practices for your file naming conventions. 01 02 99. This helps to retrieve the latest record number.
Adam pode research director with staffing industry analysts recommends using leading zeros when naming files in a sequential numbering system. What are the best ones and why. Genre authorlast authorfirst series.
If you have an isbn for your ebook the file name should be. Graebert is happy to share with you some of the experience accumulated by ralph as a cad expert and as compiled in his ebook for which the reference can be found at the bottom of the page. If you have thirty files.