What to put in the Author field of magazine-like ebooks wriiten by many contributors

halloleo · 03-30-2020, 02:25 AM

A question about management of ebooks in your library:

I have ePUBs from magazines and newspapers and they contain articles by many different authors. What is the best to put in the Authors metadata field of those publications?

I see different options:

Blank or - if software doesn't allow this - the word "Unknown" (This is the technical catch-all approach.)
The content of the Publisher field (This works well for newspapers.)
The word "Multiple" (Seems to make sense for magazines.)

What do people do? Are there other options? Does exist a standard way to do this? What works well for you?

pdurrant · 03-30-2020, 03:19 AM

In calibre I either put a semi-colon delimited list of the authors, or the name of the editor.

theducks · 03-30-2020, 07:10 AM

I use xyz (ed) Calibre ignores the (ed) when sorting

I also have a Custom Column that I keep Author lists and Pseudonyms, for cases of more than 3 Authors (I used a filename based device and wanted the {author_sort} value short )
So that is where I would list the volumes contributors

halloleo · 04-07-2020, 01:52 AM

Thanks for all the replies. I like in particular the xyz (ed) approach!

03-30-2020, 02:25 AM	#1
halloleo Groupie Posts: 156 Karma: 12649 Join Date: Feb 2020 Device: iPad	What to put in the Author field of magazine-like ebooks wriiten by many contributors A question about management of ebooks in your library: I have ePUBs from magazines and newspapers and they contain articles by many different authors. What is the best to put in the Authors metadata field of those publications? I see different options: Blank or - if software doesn't allow this - the word "Unknown" (This is the technical catch-all approach.) The content of the Publisher field (This works well for newspapers.) The word "Multiple" (Seems to make sense for magazines.) What do people do? Are there other options? Does exist a standard way to do this? What works well for you? Last edited by pdurrant; 03-30-2020 at 03:18 AM. Reason: typo

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03-30-2020, 03:19 AM	#2
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,510 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	In calibre I either put a semi-colon delimited list of the authors, or the name of the editor.

03-30-2020, 07:10 AM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,812 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I use xyz (ed) Calibre ignores the (ed) when sorting I also have a Custom Column that I keep Author lists and Pseudonyms, for cases of more than 3 Authors (I used a filename based device and wanted the {author_sort} value short ) So that is where I would list the volumes contributors

04-07-2020, 01:52 AM	#4
halloleo Groupie Posts: 156 Karma: 12649 Join Date: Feb 2020 Device: iPad	Thanks for all the replies. I like in particular the xyz (ed) approach!