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Old 01-14-2013, 02:02 AM   #1
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Simplified Cataloging of Authors?

It's great to be able to generate a catalog of our books. Perhaps I have too many books, but I find the listing of authors less than optimal. When I view the catalog in Calibre and expand the Authors section of the TOC on the left, I see a bunch of entries, on the left, of the form "Authors beginning with A," ... "Authors beginning with Z." I would greatly prefer to see the actual names on the left.

When I click on an entry like "Authors beginning with A," the window on the right gives me a lot more than just the author names. I also see titles and series. There, or somewhere, I would like to see just the author names.

I don't mean to suggest there is anything wrong with the authors, series, and titles being shown together on the right. I guess what I'd like to suggest is the ability, somewhere, to see a list of the author names and nothing more, with the ability to view an author's works by clicking on the author's name. Am I missing something?

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Old 01-14-2013, 03:58 AM   #2
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It's great to be able to generate a catalog of our books. Perhaps I have too many books, but I find the listing of authors less than optimal. When I view the catalog in Calibre and expand the Authors section of the TOC on the left, I see a bunch of entries, on the left, of the form "Authors beginning with A," ... "Authors beginning with Z." I would greatly prefer to see the actual names on the left.

When I click on an entry like "Authors beginning with A," the window on the right gives me a lot more than just the author names. I also see titles and series. There, or somewhere, I would like to see just the author names.

I don't mean to suggest there is anything wrong with the authors, series, and titles being shown together on the right. I guess what I'd like to suggest is the ability, somewhere, to see a list of the author names and nothing more, with the ability to view an author's works by clicking on the author's name. Am I missing something?
Go read the Help pages (CLI section) on: calibredb.exe list
You can have as much or little as you want in a simple 'list' (text or CSV) file
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Go read the Help pages (CLI section) on: calibredb.exe list
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After playing around with calibredb, I still end up with a list about 4000 lines long and with each author's name appearing, after unique id numbers, as many times as I have books by that author in my library. Not too useful. Maybe (probably) I'm missing something, but is there some way to generate a simple list of authors in my library, each author's name appearing only once in the list?
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calibre-debug -c "from calibre.library import db; print '\n'.join(x[1] for x in db().all_authors())"

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calibre-debug -c "from calibre.library import db; print '\n'.join(x[1] for x in db().all_authors())"
Now THAT's amazing! And it worked, too.

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