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Originally Posted by Lauraq
is absurd. Because if I, with any Research program, ask to show me the books present and remember, for example, only that she is a woman or that the author's name begins with "K", how can I find it? If the books were shown in author - title order, the operation would be feasible, in the opposite case almost impossible.
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Since you apparently have the books in a calibre library, you might want to consider using calibre to do the searching. And yes, I have one friend whom is sufficiently anal about supporting female authors that she has added columns for the author gender/race/etc. Personally, I don't care if the author is black, white, Asian, male, female, bisexual, transgendered, etc. as long as the story can capture my attention.
You did notice that calibre has a pretty decent search engine? You have checked out the capabilities of advanced search?
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Originally Posted by Lauraq
But then, did you organize the songs by title - author or the opposite?
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My calibre music library has the song titles (title field), album names (uses series with the track # as the series index), group/performer names (author field), etc. Searching for a song by say, David Blue or a song named Grand Hotel or an album named Aliens Ate My Buick or, using some of my custom columns had Jeff Porcaro playing an instrument or searching for all marked as folk genre is easy peasy.
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Originally Posted by Lauraq
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I doubt I would be banned for disagreeing with Kovid's design choices. Thanks to Kovid making calibre open source, I have the choice to fork calibre. Perhaps to create a version that allows 1023 characters file names and 16,384 path lengths. That that version of calibre would not be useful on any system that is not running Linux with a customized file system (quite a few Linux file systems are capable of very long path lengths but cap them at 4096). My library would not be transferable to a different OS/file system but life is tough.