Recording anthologies of stories

[Robby Stephenson]

HI Bill,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> wrote:
> I am looking for some advice on how to handle anthology books such as
> collections of short stories.  I would like to have an entry for each
> story and also an entry that collects them into a single bound volume.
>
> Each story should have at least a title, copyright date and author.  The
> bound volume should have a title, ISBN and editor.

I wish I had a better answer right now, but Tellico doesn't do much in
that regard. There are a couple of related wishlist bugs, for having a
met-entry of sorts (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255937) and
for linking between entries
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495726) that would help. but I
haven't implemented them yet.

> It seems this has some similarities to a music collection where each
> album can have a collection of tracks.  The analogy is not perfect,
> though.  A major weakness I see is no way to get a list of all tracks
> across all albums, sorted by artist.

Right, no way to really do that. The only small bit of functionality
that Tellico offers is that if the table field is formatted as a name,
then those names are included in the "People" grouping. That's how the
video collection manages the Cast field, for example. So you could
have a "Short Stories" field with 3 columns, author/title/date. It
would take some work to create a report that pulls out the story
titles across all books, sorted by author.

I'll see if I can take a whack at the report building, or another look
at those wishlist items. Maybe there's some progress to be made there.
I haven't thought through it in a little while.

Robby