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Originally Posted by JoopvB
Hi, Yes this is a possibility but... how do we now which author did what book and/or whether it was indeed an author (might have been a translator, cover artist etc.). And, how do we find the separate titles of the books (they may be the same as some single story books etc.).
Another solution for calibre might be to give the user access to a "book link". By this I mean a link (e.g. by name of the book) to a book containing multiple stories. That book could be indicated to be a "compilation" and the parts of the book (the stories) could be entered as is, just referencing them as part of that "compilation" book. When another compilation comes along with the same story, just ad that to the compilation reference(s) with the link to that book as well.
Seems to me that this only needs:
1) Creating one extra field accessible for the user that links to a book record in the database (preferable seen by the user as the title of the book). This field should be able to hold multiple entries.
2) Create a switch per book indicating whether the book is a book (one story, as far as the user is concerned) or a compilation (default = book).
To me this seems an elegant solution that doesn't touch the current user interface (the defaults are: no compilation, no reference) and it allows the user to expand his/her possibilities in a huge way.
Sense or...?
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Or you could use the epubsplit plugin to seperate anthologies to individual books I mostly use that as in many anthologies the individual stories are from different series that way I can sort them accordingly
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