08-07-2010, 10:13 AM | #1 |
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How to blank an author entry
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I have a collection where erroneously the publisher has been placed in the author field. I moved it to the publisher field, and blanked author and author sort. But when I close the metadata change dialogue and reopen it, author and author sort are back again. How do I blank them? Best regards mumdigau |
08-07-2010, 10:28 AM | #2 |
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Dont blank them, set them to Unknown
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08-07-2010, 11:16 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for your quick reply.
Unknown does look ugly, and actually isn't true. The book is a collection of several short stories by different (known) authors. Instead of entering 20 or more authors I want to reference the book by its publisher, and leave the author field empty. This isn't possible? mumdigau |
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You could use "Various" or "Anthology" for the author field instead of unknown
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08-07-2010, 01:47 PM | #5 |
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You can never leave the author or title fields empty - if you try then calibre will set them to Unknown. I suspect that one of the reasons is that the values of these fields are used to construct the file/folder paths that calibre uses in the structure of it's own internal library.
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Feel free to use anything you want in the Author field, but you can't leave it empty or Calibre will label it "Unknown" (or leave it unchanged if it's already filled in). |
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OK, maybe one instance...if it was the Encyclopedia Britannica, then maybe...but I would probably just use "Encyclopedia" as the author |
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If there are more than three authors, take the the first and add 'et al.' which is the abbreviation for 'et alii', the Latin expression for 'and others'. Best regards mumdigau |
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This allows me to find the less well known authors with a search (which will search both the author field and the comment field.) |
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calibre now recognizes multiple authors for a book.
It is listed under each authors listing so easy to find but is only stored once under the first author listed I believe. |
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Yes, but this was a case where he didn't want to type in all the authors in an omnibus into the author field.
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