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Originally Posted by capink
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)
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That would be good. The calibre search link gives you the mechanism. I suspect you would want some sort of mechanism to allow the author and their pen names. If the pen names are in an is-names custom column then the implementation is straight forward. The UI might be interesting -- the search might depend on knowing what sort of library you are in and what library is the "main" (target) one.
What this is really talking about is cross-linking between the libraries. This isn't straight forward. For example, BetterRed mentions having several "base" libraries (journals, comics, books, etc) that refer to meta-metadata libraries (authors, publishers, etc). Providing a UI that people can understand to specify all that makes my head hurt. It might be that the user must provide the relationships so the plugin (or whatever) knows how to generate the links.
Talking about this is fun. It also helps me push dementia further into the future.
