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Originally Posted by judyni
I'm not comfortable just putting a link in the comments because one never knows when a web page may go away.
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judyni - Save the review in a local file and put a link to that file in comments.
But where to put the local file? Here's what I do. It's quite arbitrary; whilst it 'borrows' from the calibre library structure, the only benefit I get from doing that is that I don't have to ask myself - "Now where shall I put this...?"
Assume library is at
Libraries\Main, I created folder
Libraries\MainInfo. In that folder I create
authorinfo and
bookinfo folders as required, where the folder names are the same as the library author and book folder names (sans the book number).
For authors I put a uri link to the 'authorinfo' folder into the Author Link cells in Manage Authors - e.g. file:///Libraries/MainInfo/Agatha%20Christie
For books I have a custom comments-like column called
bookinfo, in there I put a link to the
bookinfo folder using the link feature in the Comments editor. I display the
bookinfo column in the Book Details panel. I cloak the link behind "More stuff here"
Of course, the
bookinfo column can contain links to individual files in the
bookinfo folder, most of the time I find a link to folder is sufficient. But sometimes I will have a link to the
bookinfo folder and links to a specific files, usually if I have more than one EPUB for a book, e.g English, French and Russian; then I'll put the French and Russian editions into the
bookinfo folder and individual links to them in the
bookinfo column.
The above scheme supercedes anything I have written previously on this issue - for a while I was adding 7 zip archives to books. I find this much better, anything I put in the authorinfo and bookinfo folders doesn't compromise the integrity of the calibre library (folders and database).
BR