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Originally Posted by chaley
When you ask for your books to be sorted by author, they are not in fact sorted by author but are instead sorted by author_sort. Author_sort is not stored the same way as author. Instead of being an individual record per author, author_sort is kept as a single string per book.
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And I suppose this makes sense, as sorting is done per book, while searching is done per author.
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Finally, a few people (I am one of them) choose to maintain author names in library order ('ln, fn') instead of spoken order ('fn ln').
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One of the reasons there are only "a few" is that it's really hard to switch to your system. You really need to write the script that does a global copy of the author_sort field into the author field. I know, it's tricky when dealing with Esq., De, La, Jr., and multiple authors, but without an automatic tool, switching means facing a long manual editing/renaming session.