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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Then I suggest you use BetterRed's (famous   ) auxiliary bookinfo folders idea. 
You will need to edit the Manage Authors value for each author. If you don't mind getting a fail instead of the default search, every time an author doesn't have authorInfo folders, then edit Preferences ==> Interface ==> Look & Feel ==> Book Details (tab)
Default author link template == C:\Path\to\libraryInfo\{author} |
I may be misreading - if the Author link field is empty and you click on the author in book details you end up at whatever is at top of Prefs->L&F->Book Details
May not be a good idea to use {author} in the Author-link field.
- some of the file systems that calibre supports would disallow "Irčne Némirovsky" as a folder name - I think.
- forces you to have the folder name as an exact match what's in calibre metadata, if you correct a name in calibre then you must rename the Author info folder, otherwise when you click on Author Name nothing happens.
- implies you can't link pseudonyms to a common folder - eg Abu Mazen (occasional Journalist) to the Mahmoud Abbas (politician) folder.
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cybmole - my epiphany on this came when I realised my desire to "keep it all in the calibre library" would be better expressed as "have it all accessible from the calibre library".
I keep
everything relating to calibre, except temporary files and caches in a root level folder on my data drive - it gets backed up every day. BTW that includes the configuration folder.
BR