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Old 09-01-2013, 02:37 AM   #4
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The normal way, that is pretty much automatic, is to show authors as FN LN, but sort them as LN, FN. When you add books you will have to make sure that they are added like this. There are two author fields, authors and authors_sort. Authors is what is shown and authors_sort is what is used to sort the books. And the standard is to display FN LN, but sort as they do in libraries using LN, FN. There are two different fields for book titles as well, that work in a similar way. The idea is to not use "A", "An" or "The" in the beginning of a title to sort the books by title. There would be too many...

It is possible to change this to whatever other order or display you want. The only thing to avoid is to mix different styles. Pick one and use that for the all books. If you change your mind later it is easy to change all books to another style using the plugin mentioned before. And it is possible to change how calibre automatically generate authors_sort and title_sort from authors and title using a "tweak" that involves editing a configuration file.

All this is very well described in the fine manual. Since calibre is very powerful you can benefit a lot from reading the manual. For instance what I just said is in the frequently asked questions part...

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....es-and-sorting
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