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Sidetrack · 02-25-2012, 07:51 PM

I love Calibre and I may be an atypical user, in that most of you can probably go straight to their favorite website for full bios and bibliographies and be purchasing and downloading books in just a few clicks. While I spend a fair amount of time disconnected from the internet bobbing around in the middle of some ocean (lets me read a lot of books though).

One thing that is difficult for me to get a handle on is author info beyond a listed name or author related tags applied to a book. It would be very nice though if Calibre could accommodate Author level metadata from which I search or could look at a generated author page and bibliography.

Along the lines of the ebook database that Calibre already contains a second linked datase of Author info like:

Name
Psuedonyms (with parent/child relationships in the calibre database)
Related Authors
Sex
Nationality
Born/Died
Bio Text
Picture
Web links
Genre(s)
Awards
Bibliography of written works (list of titles owned titles in bold and clickable link to the local copy, unowned clickable to get/find a copy)

With some effort I can get a lot of this out of Calibre as is: tags, user categories and saved author web pages stored along with the ebooks. Seems like it would be much handier to have it all integrated. I'd envision being able to search for 19th century female British authors, pull up a Brontë, click to her sister and launch a project Gutenberg search to get a book I don't have.

Similarly it would be nice if my Calibre ebook library knew that Stephen King is a 20th century best selling American horror writer that wrote four books under the psuedonym Richard Bachman and that I don't have three of his best selling books and am missing two of Bachman's.

02-25-2012, 07:51 PM	#1
Sidetrack Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Pacific Device: Kindle DX	Author level metadata I love Calibre and I may be an atypical user, in that most of you can probably go straight to their favorite website for full bios and bibliographies and be purchasing and downloading books in just a few clicks. While I spend a fair amount of time disconnected from the internet bobbing around in the middle of some ocean (lets me read a lot of books though). One thing that is difficult for me to get a handle on is author info beyond a listed name or author related tags applied to a book. It would be very nice though if Calibre could accommodate Author level metadata from which I search or could look at a generated author page and bibliography. Along the lines of the ebook database that Calibre already contains a second linked datase of Author info like: Name Psuedonyms (with parent/child relationships in the calibre database) Related Authors Sex Nationality Born/Died Bio Text Picture Web links Genre(s) Awards Bibliography of written works (list of titles owned titles in bold and clickable link to the local copy, unowned clickable to get/find a copy) With some effort I can get a lot of this out of Calibre as is: tags, user categories and saved author web pages stored along with the ebooks. Seems like it would be much handier to have it all integrated. I'd envision being able to search for 19th century female British authors, pull up a Brontë, click to her sister and launch a project Gutenberg search to get a book I don't have. Similarly it would be nice if my Calibre ebook library knew that Stephen King is a 20th century best selling American horror writer that wrote four books under the psuedonym Richard Bachman and that I don't have three of his best selling books and am missing two of Bachman's.