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Old 01-15-2021, 04:16 PM   #1487
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
How do you identify the author book? I'm looking at the documentation and "Show book" requires a book_id, not a parameter? How do you get that id? Manually?
I use the Copy Link tools in the Book Details panel to get the link (in hex)… Link to show book in calibre, or Link to show books matching <Author Name> in calibre. Then I switch to the Books or Authors library (this is where the Switch to previous library shortcut comes into play) and paste the link just copied into the Manage <Author Name> Link field.

If you add a lot of 'new' authors, then you might want to consider automating the above via a plugin, or an Action Chain what's-it. I don't add new authors that often, so I have no need for automation.

My 'biggest' task wasn't the inter-library links, it was 'moving' the data out of the MHT files I exported from Evernote into the columns of 1,440 'books' in my Authors library. I used the MHT files to create the 'books' in the Authors library.

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