automatically sorting authors by birth date

Rodrigo Bernardo · 08-31-2022, 01:24 PM

I would like to automatically download authors birth date and sort books by those author's birthdays.

theducks · 08-31-2022, 02:13 PM

Where does the Birth date get stored? Logic says this is an Author (table) item.
But...
There are no provisions for custom columns in any place but the main GUI.
That means, you need to add it (#birthdate) to the Library view for EVERY book

by the author . (The

is because this offends my sense of doing a manageable RDB data)
And none of this is auto-magic.

chaley · 08-31-2022, 04:00 PM

You might be able to do this with the Entity Manager plugin. It advertises being able to add extra data to entities like authors. I have never used it so I don't know exactly what it does and can do, for example searching and sorting on entity data.

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, 01:24 PM	#1
Rodrigo Bernardo Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2022 Device: none	automatically sorting authors by birth date I would like to automatically download authors birth date and sort books by those author's birthdays.

08-31-2022, 06:33 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,718 Karma: 29711016 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.

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08-31-2022, 02:13 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,047 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Where does the Birth date get stored? Logic says this is an Author (table) item. But... There are no provisions for custom columns in any place but the main GUI. That means, you need to add it (#birthdate) to the Library view for EVERY book by the author . (The is because this offends my sense of doing a manageable RDB data) And none of this is auto-magic.

08-31-2022, 04:00 PM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,443 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	You might be able to do this with the Entity Manager plugin. It advertises being able to add extra data to entities like authors. I have never used it so I don't know exactly what it does and can do, for example searching and sorting on entity data.

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