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Old 10-22-2018, 04:49 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by peaceridge View Post
I'm sure this is somewhere here, but I can't find it. How do folks handle authors who use multiple names depending on the type of book? For example, Ann Maxwell (sort of SF) is also Elizabeth Lowell (mystery/romance). If it is an Ann Maxwell book I still want to know other name is Elizabeth Lowell, but I want to differentiate between this and multiple different authors for a book. I tried Ann Maxwell aka Elizabeth Lowell, but then EL doesn't show up under authors. I've been using tags, but that is getting out of hand - also tried a user field "notes", but it is used so seldom that it just takes up space on the screen.

Thanks for any help.
I do it via a link to a common Evernote note in the Manage Authors Link field for each Author.

So, in calibre, the Link field for J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith reference the EN note for Joanne Rowling. Clicking either name in the Book Details pane will open the same EN Note.

I use EN to store all 'extra' data I want to keep for an author:- web page links (their own, wikipedia, facebook, publisher etc), interview recordings, obituaries, news clippings. . . and pseudonyms.

Added: more detail here ==>> Calibre and Evernote.

One could also use OneNote in the same way I use Evernote, its Notes also have a Copy Link feature. In fact one should be able to use anything that provides uri links to its objects and sets itself as the handler for the "<whatever>://blah blah" protocol.

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