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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Don't get too hung up with inter-library links - most of my calibre:// links are intra-library links. Lets look at what happens with show-book links (leaving VLs aside).
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The problem is that the code constructs links for the values displayed in book details, for example tags. That leaves me with three choices:
- Change the code (in a lot of places) to not generate the links.
- Change the code to generate cross-library links.
- Do (almost) nothing and have the links search the current library, not the other library.
My preference is #3.
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Now lets look at what I envisage show-details links will do
when calibre://show-details/libraryA/32 is clicked
a Book Details window would pop for book 32 in libraryA - the current library list wouldn't change
That's it - no library switching, no loss of current book. But that's the tricky part
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Not as tricky as you might think.
I have a prototype working.
NB: this screams for allowing multiple book details windows.
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If I put a view-book link to a book in library FOO into a book in library BAR - when I click on it in library BAR, library FOO becomes the current library.
I've 'tolerated' the limitation because I don't do much inter-library linking of content - my content links are predominantly intra-library links.
But the whole point of show-details is to maintain library and book currency. So, if that could be finagled for show details it could hopefully be retrofitted to view-book 
BR
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Do you mean view a book in some other library without changing the current library? That's baked rather deep into the URL scheme. I'm not going to worry about it.