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Originally Posted by fidvo
One suggestion not yet mentioned is to set up a custom field for a shorter author list.
I set up a custom "Author Lookup" field in my database. This allows me to not only keep the author list short because I can put anything I want in it, but it also lets me group together books in series by multiple authors.
Take the Wheel of Time series, for instance. If I were to save to disk based upon author, most of the books in the series would be listed under Robert Jordan while the last few would be listed under Brandon Sanderson, which would split the series and make the books hard to find.
So I put "Jordan, Robert" in the Author Lookup field, even the ones by Brandon Sanderson, and my save-to-disk template uses this.
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It depends which author is listed first. THe first author will be saved in my template, and I think officially Wheel of Time last few books is by "Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson". So it would be saved as "Jordan, Robert" or without my template as "Jordan, Robert & Sanderson, Brandon".
Instead of using a custom column, just manually change who the main author is (i.e. whichever one is listed first.)