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Old 05-15-2021, 09:27 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Lauraq View Post
x DNSB:

for woman: Simple, I sort the authors by name and immediately identify the names of the women present.
Given that opening calibre's tag browser has an Authors item which when you click on the down arrow shows a list of all authors in it's database, it's hard to argue that another program would give you an easier interface. And what do you do about the mass of authors where male/female/whatever is not immediately apparent from the name -- is S. W. Clarke male or female? Was Andre Norton male or female?

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Adobe problem: problems are always there with all programs, Caliber has solved the underlying problem by sending us back to DOS
If Kovid was charging us what Adobe does, you might have a point. As it is, he went with the lowest common denominator. And note that I gave an example where Adobe has issues on Mac OSX due to variable support for case sensitivity.


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I didn't understand how you do it, I have many fields to add:

year of birth author
author
title
series
year of publication
tag
dimension
extension
Hmmm... metadata download will cover most of your author, title, series, year of publication, tags, etc. Author's year of birth, etc. would call for a custom column. For information on custom columns, see the calibre FAQs for Why doesn't calibre have a column for foo?, the calibre custom columns entry in the calibre blog, etc. Repeat the custom columns for other columns you want that calibre does not support out of the box.

I'm not sure what you mean by extension? epub? azw3? That is already covered by formats.

As for dimension? Are you putting paper books in your library with the paperback/trade paperback or hardcover? Otherwise unless you have an pdf or other fixed format file, that might be worthwhile but since most of my ebooks are reflowable, dimension is a rather meaningless concept?
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