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[Enhancement]: Support for merging authors with multiple pen names #2951

Closed cassieesposito closed 3 weeks ago

cassieesposito commented 3 weeks ago

Describe the feature/enhancement

Some authors publish under multiple names. Currently, if I want all books by such an author to appear in the same list, I need to choose one pen name and assign all books they've written to that author. This is not ideal for at least two reasons:

nichwall commented 3 weeks ago

You can add multiple authors to a book, so in the meantime you could add "Samuel Clemens" to all books by him, and then also add "Mark Twain" to the appropriate books.

advplyr commented 3 weeks ago

Duplicate of https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/908