Please give us an anniversary feature
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:37 am
I often have to write anniversary articles for journals and newspapers about people and famous books in the Humanities. A typical assignment could be an article about Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry", which first appeared 250 years ago. This task involves re-reading the book(s), assessment, influence on contemporaries and later reception. This is manageable if I know the anniversary date in advance and have time to make preparations before the deadline.
Is there any way to see in Bookends which groundbreaking books first appeared 100 years ago, without having to do all the calculation manually myself? Similarly, I would like to see which poets and writers were born (or died) in August 100 years ago, so that I have enough time to prepare, if a worthy candidate pops up. (I say 'enough time' because now we have April).
I guess this would require fields for date of birth and death, and a field for first year publication (which I already have in my database). Birth and death years, as well as the first year publication, would all have be automatically subtracted from the current date in order to calculate the anniversary years. If I then view the results in the column view, I would see immediately whether important events, worth writing about, are approaching.
Thank you.
Is there any way to see in Bookends which groundbreaking books first appeared 100 years ago, without having to do all the calculation manually myself? Similarly, I would like to see which poets and writers were born (or died) in August 100 years ago, so that I have enough time to prepare, if a worthy candidate pops up. (I say 'enough time' because now we have April).
I guess this would require fields for date of birth and death, and a field for first year publication (which I already have in my database). Birth and death years, as well as the first year publication, would all have be automatically subtracted from the current date in order to calculate the anniversary years. If I then view the results in the column view, I would see immediately whether important events, worth writing about, are approaching.
Thank you.