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[Enhancement]: Add an Original Publication Year to the Details pane

Open cupanoodle opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Describe the feature/enhancement

It would be good to be able to add the year of the original publication for a book since it is often different to the audiobook publication year.

For example The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett has an original publication year of 1983 but there are numerous audiobook adaptations with widely ranging publication dates. In the case of this book I just used 1983, but now I have two editions of the same book and it would be convenient to be able to put both the original publication year and the audiobook publish year.

cupanoodle avatar Mar 22 '23 21:03 cupanoodle

This is pie-in-the-sky thinking...and as such, maybe it belongs in a separate ER, but I would like ABS to someday have the ability to use, e.g., AI, to find the original publication date so I don't have to deal with finding the original publication date.

Also, given this, an option as to which date to use for record keeping and sorting would be important. E.g., my books are saved as e.g., /library/books/audiobooks/Last, First/Title: Subtitle (YYYY)/Title -- Audiobook.opus and YYYY is for the original publication date. Admittedly, this can be a bit out of format occasionally (e.g., ../Homer/The Iliad (Emily Wilson trans. - Audra McDonald narr.) (700 BC)/The Iliad -- Audiobook.opus) but generally works to capture and store the information most relevant to me published over the last 2 millenia (all but 9 books).

iconoclasthero avatar Feb 21 '24 17:02 iconoclasthero