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Originally Posted by chaley
My question is why bother to use the option when after a 'fix', the Kindle apparently produces the same result as when the option is off? As a developer, it is hard to get excited about doing work that has null result. I would rather disable the option.
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I may be mistaken, but the option
does have an effect.
On the Kindle, for an author string of "Last, First", it will display "First Last" but sort by "Last".
On Calibre, Author is "First Last" and author_sort is
often "Last, First". Therefore, the option sets Author to be author_sort so that it is correctly interpretted by the Kindle.
If this option is NOT selected, then Kindle displays the author correctly, but sorts by "First" instead of "Last".
The option works as advertised (and does correct the sorting problem)
except when there are multiple authors involved.
I am under the impression from you post (though I'm not sure myself) that Calibre automatically converts multiple authors to use a semicolon instead of an ampersand when sending *.mobi books to the Kindle (because this is what Kindle understands) but that it doesn't do this when the option to use author_sort as author is set (instead, keeping the ampersand, which the Kindle doesn't understand).
To me, that sounds like a bug. But, as I said, I could very well be mistaken.
Thanks for your continued interest.