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Originally Posted by tulsa
This is kinda what was going through my mind.
This would then bring up the issue about the way Calibre physically stores the ebook. Since its stored by author/title/nameofbook, seems it would be difficult for Calibre to decide which author is the primary author.
There ought to be a new field like 1st author, 2nd author, etc. Or at least have the option of adding an author and then having Calibre always use the first author to store the book under.
dunno.. just thinkin' out loud.
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Having worked on the code, I know a bit about this. Calibre considers each author to be an item of metadata called "author" in another chunk of metadata (a list) called "authors." Each author is independently linked to the book. Searches for an author will find all of that author's books regardless of whether he's a single or joint author and regardless of whether he's first or last in a list.
Calibre stores a multi-author book in its black box secret and thou-shalt-not-touch storage system under the name of the first author in the list, but that doesn't mean that author is any more primary than the others. It's just how the book is stored, and since we're supposed to ignore that, it makes no difference.