Multiple Authors

[towhit523]

Originally Posted by Xenophon

Are these two authors with the same last name? If so, standard cataloging would list the authors as
"Radclyffe Kallmaker & Karin Kallmaker"

in which case Calibre's author sort field would then read as:
Kallmaker, Radclyff & Kallmaker, Karin

Whether the PRS600 does right by that listing is yet another question, of course.

Xenophon

These authors do not have the same last name. One authors goes by a single name. It does look to be a problem with the readers but it was much easier to deal with when Calibre didn't change my "and" to an "ampersand"

[ck2875]

I am also trying to output Multiple Authors on a .mobi file but I am having a problem where it is displaying incorrectly on my Kindle. I have the author listed as "Bronson, Po & Merryman, Ashley" and when it is displayed it adds in an extra space between the second author's first and last name to show "Po Broson and Ashley Merryman"... Does anyone know how to fix this?

Originally Posted by itimpi

If there are multiple authors, enter the names separated by the ampersand '&' symbol. At the Calibre metadata level that will cause entries to be made under both authors.

This has been bugging me for years.

[BeeVee]

Hi,

I have friends that are writing a book and their names are Andrea and William Vaughan. In Calibre 3.13 I get either "Andrea Vaughan and William Vaughan" (and the folder is "Andrea Vaughan" with an author sort of Vaughan, Andrea & Vaughan, William) or Andrea & Vaughan, William if I try and write the name the way it is indicated at the start of my post. Is there anything I can do to better match the way they want to write their names?

All the best,

B

[Divingduck]

'and' in names is used to split names. The only way I know is to modify the standard authors_split_regex in tweaks of calibre. Search for tweak # Splitting multiple author names
and use for example:

authors_split_regex = '(?i),?\\s+(with)\\s+'

...and always remember your modification

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BeeVee

Hi,

I have friends that are writing a book and their names are Andrea and William Vaughan. In Calibre 3.13 I get either "Andrea Vaughan and William Vaughan" (and the folder is "Andrea Vaughan" with an author sort of Vaughan, Andrea & Vaughan, William) or Andrea & Vaughan, William if I try and write the name the way it is indicated at the start of my post. Is there anything I can do to better match the way they want to write their names?

All the best,

B

You got it. At least that is what I do
Lee and Miller usually write together. But sometimes it's just Sharron
Having full names keeps all the books by either available on a search of a single name

[luciaisacat]

Sorry to add more variables into this discussion, but I am searching for an appropriate solution of two additional cases: a pseudonym (e.g. Robert Galbraith aka J. K. Rowling) or (more complicate) a pseudonym involving two or more authors (e.g. Ellery Queen aka Daniel Nathan & Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky). How would you register these two cases in Calibre in order to have all names listed as authors?

Many thanks!

luciaisacat

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by luciaisacat

Sorry to add more variables into this discussion, but I am searching for an appropriate solution of two additional cases: a pseudonym (e.g. Robert Galbraith aka J. K. Rowling) or (more complicate) a pseudonym involving two or more authors (e.g. Ellery Queen aka Daniel Nathan & Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky). How would you register these two cases in Calibre in order to have all names listed as authors?

Many thanks!

luciaisacat

I would link the J.K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith records in calibre to the same Evernote record (note) for Joanna Rowling, via the Author Link field.

I've never run into the second case, but I'd guess I'd do something similar. I'd link the Ellery Queen author record in Calibre to an Ellery Queen note in Evernote. And I'd cross-link Evernote notes for Dannay and Lee to and from the Ellery Queen note.

You could do exactly the same using OneNote. Evernote and OneNote 'publish' a unique id for every note in the form of a URI - e.g. evernote://blah-blah, and onenote://whatever.

BR

[luciaisacat]

Thanks to BetterRed for the solutions suggested. However, my questions are specific for Calibre: how to file the author field in these records?

"Robert Galbraith aka Joanna Rowling" and "Ellery Queen aka Daniel Nathan & Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky" in Calibre would create different authors compared to the original names and in particular the latter would be split (at the "&") into two different author names ("Ellery Queen aka Daniel Nathan" & "Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky").

A possible solution (as far I could think of it) could be the introduction of the "=" and "(..)" signs in the author field which would allow the following: "Robert Galbraith = Joanna Rowling" and "Ellery Queen = (Daniel Nathan & Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky)"

Kovid?

Thanks!

L

[kovidgoyal]

You cannot use ampersand. Workaround it however you like best, use a different symbol, a phrase, a semi-colon, whatever suits you.

AS for the question of aliases it has nothing to do with multiple authors. If I were you, I'd use the following scheme:

1) Store only real names in the authors column
2) Create a secondary column with aliases for the authors, if any
3) Create a grouped search term that allows searching both those columns at once (see preferences->Search)

Personally, I just always use real names and make a note about the book having been published under a pseudonym in the comments.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Personally, I just always use real names and make a note about the book having been published under a pseudonym in the comments.

A comment about this: I don't think it works for metadata-download, as usually the books are never stored under the real name (see, for example, Laura Bradford / Elizabeth Lynn Casey or Camille Minichino / Margaret Grace / Ada Madison / Jean Flowers)

[theducks]

Cover name goes in {authors}.
I do correct minor variations (Initial, no initial) to be consistent across books.
I DO NOT insert names that do not appear on covers. The J K Rowling example
I have a custom column for Pseudonym 4

Kovid, is there anyway that a custom column could use the LOOKUP of another (regular) column. This would help consistent name entry between

BTW my use of that custom column has evolved. I now list the editor in the Authors column and put all the contributors in my custom column.
This keep template usage neat

[kovidgoyal]

@Terisa: Yes, but in my workflow I only download metadata for a few books at a time so manually correcting it is not a problem.

@theduck: Not sure what you are asking. If you want one custom column to display values from another, just use the appropriate template. And in general program mode, the templates can perform arbitrary computation on all metadata values for the book.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Terisa: Yes, but in my workflow I only download metadata for a few books at a time so manually correcting it is not a problem.

@theduck: Not sure what you are asking. If you want one custom column to display values from another, just use the appropriate template. And in general program mode, the templates can perform arbitrary computation on all metadata values for the book.

Not that.
A common picklist. Both columns use the Authors TABLE and Authors_idx

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by luciaisacat

Thanks to BetterRed for the solutions suggested. However, my questions are specific for Calibre: how to file the author field in these records?

I should have added, I use Evernote extensively to organise other data, not just e-book related stuff. I also started using it several years before I started using calibre, so it was part of the furniture so to speak.

And for calibre, I don't just use it to keep track of author pseudonyms. I also use it to store other author data, such as links to their WikiP entry, to their website, fan blogs, obits, photos, etc etc.

Same with books, e.g. if I have a 'duplicate' book, in the same format, but another language, then I put/hook the non-English format into an Evernote note, and link the calibre book, via a custom column (EN_Link, #en_link) to the Evernote note.

Unfortunately there's no convenient way to link to a calibre book from beyond calibre - i.e. there's no calibre:\\thisBook protocol handler

BR