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Originally Posted by WalterWalter
Thank you for the hint. I tried it. Setting similar books to Author sort works fine for single authors, it will find all all "Roger Penrose" in author_sort no matter what the name of the author. But it totally breaks down for more than one author. So a book with the author "RogerPenrose & Albert Einstein" will not be found when doing a similar search on author_sort even with the match any option. Morove, a similar search on a book with authors "RogerPenrose & Albert Einstein" will not find a book with the authors "Albert Einstein & RogerPenrose".
A grouped search will not help, since only want to search the column author_sort. I could maybe add custom columns for author1_sort, author2_sort and so on and than search over all these cusom columns, but that seems overly complex.
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Like you, I prefer the Cover name in Author (except I will normalize (w/)Initials when both are used), so Christopher Nuttall always has his middle initial; G.)
Been a while since I set this up.
I have a custom column #psudo4 (first image)
Originally this was just for pen names, but like all things it filled others (later)
But this is where I put the Real name if the cover has a pen name
As for searching you just need to set Preferences
Similar and
Grouped searches up. FWIW Penned_As now appears in the Tag browser, so you could drive your search from there
OK it is later
Other uses:
I limit my {Author} up to 3 names , Part of the reason was File based devices could not deal with the huge path (or it got munged up so weird)
Collections: {Author} gets the Primary or EDITORS, all the others get into #pseudo4 .
FWIW I do something similar with series, but I use <various> IN {SERIES} if there is more than 2 (I am of the school, to avoid many extra columns if only used rarely)