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Originally Posted by Ethanaul
I'd like to store informations about authors, as: - nicknames (or alternative author name),
- original country
- writing language,
- website,
- other ideas ?
Some explanations
Nicknames
The nicknames could be interresting to search the books from the same author, even if it wrote with another name. As J.K. Rowling (aka Kennilworthy Whisp, Newt Scamander and Robert Galbraith) or Robin Hobb (aka Megan Lindholm).
Original country
I had a trouble with Robin Cook, two autors use this name, one is from UK (real name: Derek Raymond) and one is US. |
Any extra information a plugin might store for an author would be available only in that plugin, which is probably less than one wants. Also, a plugin to store customizable structured information including images would be very complex.
If you used
BetterRed's Evernote scheme then the author notes could contain whatever you want, and the notes could sync across machines, including Android. If you are a Calibre Companion user then you can see the "Author links" (presumably to Evernote) in CC's book details and can edit the information in Evernote on the Android device. Evernote will sync it back to your computer running calibre.
EDIT: Sorry about the CC reference. I glanced back at your post to see what device you use, mistakenly looked at the post before yours, and thought you had an Android device.