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Old 06-18-2011, 06:20 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
A simple solution that requires almost zero work is to have author names become clickable links in the book details panel. We could let the user specify the link as chaley suggests, but for authors that do not have a specified link it could link to the wikipedia search page for that name or even the direct page for the name, assuming wikipedia has a consistent url scheme for people names.
Me likes that!

@chaley: one link is better than none.

@transmitthis: I feel doubtful wanting to see titles like 00 AsimovDetails (seems like lot of 'noise'), though I like your screenshot. If I imagine scenario where I'm sorting by series or language or whatever... book 00 has to come out in every sort.
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