MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Need some help with author and author sort

shousa · 02-13-2008, 07:03 PM

It turns out on the 505 that
1) the "author sort" field on libprs500 is not used (only for libprs500 GUI)
2) author data changed using lrf-meta is not used if using libprs500 to put the ebooks on so ignore using it.
3) the ONLY author data picked up is just "author" in libprs500 (the first field).

So if you want the order to be on "J" the field should be "Julius Caesar" (using a space), if you want the order to be on "C" it should be "Caesar Julius" on the 505.

So the best for me seems to be (on GUI for libprs500) author = "Caesar Julius" and author sort = "Caesar Julius".

I searched but could not find this info on this forum anywhere so I hope it is useful.

02-13-2008, 07:03 PM	#5
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	It turns out on the 505 that 1) the "author sort" field on libprs500 is not used (only for libprs500 GUI) 2) author data changed using lrf-meta is not used if using libprs500 to put the ebooks on so ignore using it. 3) the ONLY author data picked up is just "author" in libprs500 (the first field). So if you want the order to be on "J" the field should be "Julius Caesar" (using a space), if you want the order to be on "C" it should be "Caesar Julius" on the 505. So the best for me seems to be (on GUI for libprs500) author = "Caesar Julius" and author sort = "Caesar Julius". I searched but could not find this info on this forum anywhere so I hope it is useful. Last edited by shousa; 02-13-2008 at 07:21 PM.