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Originally Posted by wpbpete
Thank you for responding. I'm hoping for an automated way to accomplish my goal. How can try what you suggest here. Can you point me to a tutorial?
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I am posting a screen shot of how I use the Manage Authors Link field to reference a supplementary author folder from within calibre.
I have a subfolder for
Joseph Stiglitz in my Test library folder that was created by calibre in which calibre will create folders for books authored by Stiglitz. In my TestInfo/Authors folder I have another subfolder for
Joseph Stiglitz, that I created into which I can put whatever I wish.
I use the Link property that's provided for each author in calibre's Manage Authors list to reference the Joseph Stiglitz folder in TestInfo/Authors. So when I click Joseph Stiglitz in Book details it opens the TestInfo/Authors/Joseph Stiglitz folder.
Currently calibre requires a "file:///...." URI link in the field - I have a shell extension (Filemenu Tools) that can provide such a thing - but I imagine it would relatively easy to provide a browse button in Manage Authors, similar to the one recently implemented in the Insert Link dialogue in the Comments Editor.
Feel free to ask any questions.
I can't see what putting a folder.jpg into a calibre library author folder would buy you, apart from eye-candy when you browse a library folder in a file manager like File Explorer, or Finder. I guess calibre could display a thumb in book details above the author name, and a rogues gallery if there are multiple authors
I can confirm that you will 'lose' folder.jpg if you alter the Author name - eg Joseph Stiglitz to Joseph E. Stiglitz.
BR