[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

My understanding is calibre:\\book-details links to books in the same library would need to be in a long text column - viz:

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Originally Posted by chaley

Nope. You can have links to details in the current library. The easiest way is to use the '_' character as the library name. Using the full library name will work too.

EDIT: If you mean back-links then yes, you are right.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If I want to link Book 30 in my Books library to Book 159 in the same library via a book-detail, and/or a show-book and/or a view-book link, where would I put the calibre://<xxxx-xxxxx>/Books/159 URL(s) other than in a long text column - which could be Comments of course.

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Originally Posted by chaley

You can put one of them in the links field. If you want more than one link then yes, you must put them somewhere else.

Note: they would need to be a triple: category key, category, link, as in

tags|foo|some-link
authors|John Smith|some-link

I don't know what the separator should be. It can't be comma.

What would you do with these?

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@chaley - I'm referring to direct links between books, nothing to do with Link fields in Category columns - e.g. Between Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Huxley's ‘Brave New World'.

Something like this



I already use different colours for different link types.

Copy all links: I would paste the copied links into a sticky note, from which I can easily cherry-pick copy and paste, something like this:



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