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theducks · 08-31-2022, 02:13 PM

Where does the Birth date get stored? Logic says this is an Author (table) item.
But...
There are no provisions for custom columns in any place but the main GUI.
That means, you need to add it (#birthdate) to the Library view for EVERY book

by the author . (The

is because this offends my sense of doing a manageable RDB data)
And none of this is auto-magic.

08-31-2022, 02:13 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,079 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Where does the Birth date get stored? Logic says this is an Author (table) item. But... There are no provisions for custom columns in any place but the main GUI. That means, you need to add it (#birthdate) to the Library view for EVERY book by the author . (The is because this offends my sense of doing a manageable RDB data) And none of this is auto-magic.