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Originally Posted by theducks
+1 and +1
Baen does this all the time (although I don't think I have seen them use S&S there).
Authors (at least for all publishers in my Library):
Middle initial With or without a period Or even the initial
Robert Heinlein, Robert A Heinlein,Robert A. Heinlein (I don't remember seeing his full middle name on a cover)
Christopher Nuttall has the variations of middle initial frequently.
I chose:
Christopher G. Nuttall as MY standard as it was most frequent at the time.
:bulb2; Quality check Plugin has tools in the FIX section to help standardize
OTOH
There are deliberate Author name variations for some who choose to write in different genres. ( Initials in one, Middle name (only) Last, In another. Those I do not Mix.
Then there is the real PITA  , 2 Authors with the same name... (I am waiting for one of them to get with another to write, just to really tick me off  )
Variations are why I don't Automate fully.
 I would love to have a way to mark 'those problem kids' (in Manage...?): Human help needed NOW, and have Calibre stop the Add / non-interactive metadata update) and have it wait for user to resolve, rather than proceeding where they need to be discovered later. |
I don’t understand your issues here, that’s what aliases are for.
Maybe we should vote for an unique ID, to track down every single author.
