Thread: Adding kindle books to calibre.
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Old 04-18-2013, 02:37 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by book64 View Post
Hi looked at that but want to change from LN FN to FN LN ( epubs already import that way but not kindles)
I need to check something: You keep saying "LN FN" and we keep saying "LN, FN". Note the comma. Are you missing the comma when you import the books? All the Kindle books I have imported have done it with the comma.

With the author as "LN, FN" (including comma), you simply select the books you want to fix, and select "Swap author ..." option of the Fix menu of Quality Check.

And to select them, use the "Check authors with commas" option in the "Check metadata" menu of Quality Check. That gives you a list of all the books that have authors with a comma as part of the name. These will probably be the ones that need to be fixed.

But, if you don't have the comma in the author, you are a bit stuck. Finding the authors that are wrong is harder as need to individually check the name.

And as you say "looked at that", have you tried it? Try it on one book and see if it does what you want. If not, you can easily fix it. If it does, try it for a few more books. Then find all the rest that are wrong and do them.
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