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Originally Posted by chaley

BetterRed's idea of using real separate meta-metadata libraries with the ability to show details from those other libraries in the "main" library gets most of the way there without massive changes.

That would actually work for what I have in mind. Using this, I maybe able to add a plugin action to the context menu of the categories to open a library view of the authors instead of the "Manage authors" window. From there I might be able to use other tools such as search and replace.

This leaves some other things I might try when I have time:

• Figure out a way to auto link authors (and other categories) instead of doing it manually. Re-using code from the Find Duplicates plugin can help with that.
• Adding a button or some mechanism to translate a search from the author library to a corresponding search in the books library. For example the following search from the author library:
  

  #nationality:russian

  should translate into something like that in the books library
  
  

  authors:"=Leo Tolstoy" or authors:"=Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

Edit: Instead of search, would be better to add a context menu item (in authors library) to show books by selected authors in the books library (using the search above)