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Originally Posted by dwanthny
The above is calibre's default way of dealing with authors. I enter FN LN in the author field and calibre puts LN, FN in the author sort field. When I sort on the author column it sorts by last name, even though it displays FN LN.
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Yes, this makes it pretty hard for me. My brain sorts from left to right, so I am completely confused when I see 'Alistair McLean' in amongst all the 'm's. In fact, depending on the authors around the M's, it could be a list of anything. So I treat the Author column in the grid as a list of random names. I simply cannot use it.
It would be nice if there was a column in the grid that showed Author Sort. At least that way it would mean something. This would also be good as Author Sort is what the program uses to export files to devices, Save to disk, etc. At the moment, it is hard to know that the Author Sort is what you expect it to be.
I am happy with how Calibre organises itself using LN, FN and all that - it is just the it does not show you that in the grid.