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Yes chaley, that's what I wanted: A tag like field but using & instead of comma and with all the associated author sorting stuff.
And also like in a brainstorm, you've pointed something I hadn't thought of: Creating just one people pool, it doesn't matter their "jobs". As you point out, the same person being an author AND a translator (or an editor, or whatever) at the same time can be quite possible.
I think it would be really nice that Calibre only had this single "people-database", no matter in which field the name is used (canon Author or any other additional author-like custom column).
But as you say I cannot tell if this improvement is worth the effort. (Maybe you can make a poll between Calibre coders).
As a less radical change, maybe Author-like columns could be fully implemented but not making a single "people database", so "Christopher Tolkien" in Authors would be different from "Christopher Tolkien" as editor. I mean, if you rename the author "Christopher Tolkien" to "Tolkien junior", the editor would continue being "Christopher Tolkien". But again, I cannot tell if this improvement is worth the effort...
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