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Originally Posted by peaceridge
Could someone walk me through this?
I enter (in the author column) my author lastname, firstname - and "use author sort for author" - is there something else I need to do in this step?
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You leave the author column alone. Under Preferences ==> Conversion ==> Output Options you must choose from the left-hand side "MOBI Output" AND "AZW3 Output" then for each one of them, check the option "Use author sort for author"
The purpose of this is so your Kindle sorts the author view correctly, rather than treating the whole author filed as just the last name. Basically, mobi doesn't have proper support for author metadata, and this is the workaround.
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In Metadata plugboards, I add new plugboard, with format = any format and device =any device, then "Source Template: {author_sort:re(\, ,_)} {series:|(|)}
Destination Field: Author field."
If in Preferences>sending book to device - save templete, I change "{author_sort}/{title}" to "{series_index:|[|]} {title}", where do I put Destination Field: Title field.
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Here you must fill {author_sort:re(\, ,_)} {series:|(|)} in on the Source Template box, and choose "authors" on the dropdown in the Destination Field box.
Likewise, {series_index:|[|]} {title} goes in the next row, under Source Template, and "title" goes in the Destination Field.
It should look like this:
And you should undo the change you made to Preferences ==> Sending Books to Devices; this is very easy, just go back there and click the top right corner button "Restore defaults".