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Old 04-01-2010, 12:31 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
I assume the "Yes" is that it is properly parsed as two authors named Smith on the Kindle. I wonder about inside the SQL database of Calibre. I don't have an e-reader, so that's all that I see. I was thinking about a search like author:"Nancy Smith" and the same for John Smith. Would it pull up all the books by them, including the joint authorship and sole authorship books.
My experience is that you'd need to enter the author, in Calibre, as "Smith, John & Smith, Nancy". That will definitely store the two authors separately and will subsequently match searches by either name.

If you enter an author of that form, and then edit the metadata for a book and look at the "author" drop-down, you'll find that it lists "Smith, John" and "Smith, Nancy" as separate authors. If, on the other hand, you enter "Smith, John & Nancy", the drop-down will list "Smith, John", but then simply "Nancy".

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