Thread: Extending Author Metadata
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Old 06-09-2019, 10:01 PM   #12
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Soap-dodger View Post
Thanks for your suggestion. However, I prefer to maintain all book-related information within Calibre, without recourse to external facilities and tools.

I understand that Calibre already separates author-related information into its own table, as is proper under standard database design. It's just that the permitted author information is so sparse. There ought to be a way to extend author-related information via custom columns, just as there is for book-related information.
It's a matter of what the tool is for. Calibre is an ebook management system. It lets you collect your ebooks and maintain the information about them. With that is the goal, does having the authors date of birth actually help with book management? Do you really need to know this when deciding what book to read? And, personally, I have no interest in maintaining the information. Configuring the link associated with an author to go to an appropriate author page is probably enough for most of us. But, a plugin that fetched the page and displayed it in a dialog would be a good addition if someone is interested in creating it.
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