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BetterRed · 08-31-2022, 06:33 PM

I maintain a separate Authors library (one book per author), it contains custom columns for date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death, cause of death, links to wikipedia page, author site, publisher site, obits, etc. I maintain this manually, i.e. no downloading.

In the Author link field in my Books library, I put a calibre://show-book/ URL to the Author book in my Authors library

In the Author link field in my Authors library I put a calibre://search/ URL for the Author in my Books library.

The show-book and search URL's can be obtained via the Copy option in the Book details panel context menus.

See ==>> The calibre:// URL scheme

BR

08-31-2022, 06:33 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,825 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I maintain a separate Authors library (one book per author), it contains custom columns for date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death, cause of death, links to wikipedia page, author site, publisher site, obits, etc. I maintain this manually, i.e. no downloading. In the Author link field in my Books library, I put a calibre://show-book/ URL to the Author book in my Authors library In the Author link field in my Authors library I put a calibre://search/ URL for the Author in my Books library. The show-book and search URL's can be obtained via the Copy option in the Book details panel context menus. See ==>> The calibre:// URL scheme BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-31-2022 at 08:52 PM.