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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Making an empty book for each short story would make more sense, especially if it could have a link that would open the anthology. Then one could use the anthology's TOC to get to the actual story. I see no point in making it any more complicated than necessary (although it seems geeks, engineers, etc. take great delight in doing so).
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You're asking the "geeks and engineers" to add a complex feature that links an empty book to a pre-existing book elsewhere in the database (a feature that is not currently found in calibre, a feature that is totally contrary to calibre's existing design structure and one that has no other use I can see) and then you give them a poke in the ribs by saying that
they are the ones who delight in complexity?
Personally, I just copy the index of short stories from the anthology TOC/index into the comments. When I search for a title, I always search using the search bar, never the tag browser, and I always just type into the search bar:
"short story name"
never
"title:=short story name"
I avoid looking in the GUI in alphabetical order to find SSs. Doing it this way guarantees I find the anthology that has the title of the SS in the comments. If it's a special SS, I might make an empty record and put the anthology name(s) in the comments.