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Old 06-09-2019, 07:09 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Soap-dodger View Post
I would like to have the ability to add extra columns to the author table, for example, email address, dates of birth/death, real name (c/f pen name), social media links.

Is there a way to do this?
If you right click an Author name in Book Details or Tag Browser and select Manage <Author name> you'll get a list like this:

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ID:	171852

That's my Test Library, as you can see I have links to Evernote and Onenote pages, a text file, and a mailto address.

In my 'real libraries', when I want to keep supplemental data for an Author I create a page in an Evernote Authors notebook (using a pro-forma template) and paste the page link into the Link field, when I click the Author name in Book Details the Evernote page opens up.

You could create web server pages for authors and paste 'html:blah-blah' URLs into the Link field, they would open in your browser when you clicked an Author name in Book Details.

An "Open Author link" tool with a keyboard shortcut would be handy. IIRC CalibreSpy has one.

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