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Old 10-02-2010, 11:06 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by dkritso109 View Post
i think i gotcha, in the metadata card leave author sort blank but input the author as LN,FN in the "Author(s):" input box?
You can use all three sortings.
Install the latest Calibre.
Leave author names and author sort names as they are.
Right click on column headers, select Add your own columns, add a new column, call it fn_ln or whatever you want, give it column heading, select Column type "Column built from other columns" and to the template put {authors}
Add another column, call it ln_fn or whatever you want, give it column heading, select Column type "Column built from other columns" and to the template put {author_sort}
restart calibre (be careful, on windows you have to close calibre from icon on toolbar (Aaaargh!))

Now you can use all three sorting schemes.
- The default, where authors are shown FirstName LastName, but are sorted by lastname
- where authors are shown FirstName LastName, and are sorted alphabeticaly by FirstName
- Where authors are displayed LastName, FirstName and are sorted alphabeticaly by LastName
- any combination of the above

This is only very short example what you can do with your own columns, templates ...

You do not have to do the above in order to find authors. You can simply type part of the name to the search bar.

If you need to access files and you do not like default calibre folder naming scheme, you can use "save to disk" function and you can use any elaborate naming scheme using author names in whatever format, series, dates, isbn numbers, book titles, any custom columns ... the possibilities limited only by your imagination. Just read the documentation on the calibre site
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