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Cyphigma · 04-13-2019, 04:27 PM

Thanks for the response.

In my case I have non-anthology books that have anywhere from 4-12 primary authors, upwards of two dozen "with contributions by" authors. There are just far too many people to include in the Authors field. Particularly since calibre uses this to create it's internal folder structure. I would quickly run into the 250 character limit filepath issue (if it still applies) on Windows 10.

Considering how many calibre users are database savvy, I figured to ask because someone other than me must have run into the issue.

So right now I'm entering a single person in Author and everyone else in #Credits, with proper citation and I've set calibre to check both columns on a search. And I've just started to try understanding the Entity Management plugin... but so far it's evading understanding.

04-13-2019, 04:27 PM	#8
Cyphigma Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2019 Device: Android	Thanks for the response. In my case I have non-anthology books that have anywhere from 4-12 primary authors, upwards of two dozen "with contributions by" authors. There are just far too many people to include in the Authors field. Particularly since calibre uses this to create it's internal folder structure. I would quickly run into the 250 character limit filepath issue (if it still applies) on Windows 10. Considering how many calibre users are database savvy, I figured to ask because someone other than me must have run into the issue. So right now I'm entering a single person in Author and everyone else in #Credits, with proper citation and I've set calibre to check both columns on a search. And I've just started to try understanding the Entity Management plugin... but so far it's evading understanding.