04-13-2010, 09:47 PM | #1 |
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Question re: sorting by author
Hey, I'm editing the metadata of a large number of ebooks and would find sorting by author very helpful. The issue is that the auto-sort feature will sort the authors by the last word in the phrase. That is useful when the metadata is all clean, but sucks when it isn't. Is there an option to sort by author where the sorting is done strictly alphabetically?
Example: John Doe - Generic Now sorts it by 'generic', but I'd like it to sort by 'john', temporarily so that I can line up the 'John Does' and bulk edit them. Is there a way to do this easily? Searching for 'John Doe' will yield the right ebooks, but it's also extremely slow compared to just running through the main library in the requested fashion. |
04-13-2010, 10:29 PM | #2 |
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Hmmm - are you talking about sorting in calibre itself? If so, click on the 'author' tab and it will sort them by authors.
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04-13-2010, 10:47 PM | #4 |
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Yeah but he did mention he wants to sort by 'john' . I am sure you can change something in calibre to sort by lastname. I just never bothered to find it.
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04-13-2010, 11:44 PM | #5 |
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It's possible I didn't explain that well.
If the Author lists as 'John Doe (v1.0)', then it'll sort by '(v1.0)'. This means that 'John Doe - Generic' will be totally separated from 'John Doe (v1.0)'. Like so: BookName1 John Doe (v1.0) OtherBooks BunchofAuthors1 (from ( to G) BookName2 John Doe - Generic MoreBooks BunchofAuthors2 (G to R) BookName3 John Doe - Revised LotsoBooks Bunch of Authors3 (R to Z) I want: OtherBooks BunchofAuthors (from ( to Jo) BookName1 John Doe (v1.0) BookName2 John Doe - Generic BookName3 John Doe - Revised OtherBooks BunchofAuthors (from Jp to Z) In the first section, I have to search every author's name individually and then bulk edit. In the second, I can bulk edit from the main library view, saving me hours of time. It seems like a fairly simple and useful feature so I assume calibre must have it, but I can't find it. It's just a change from sorting by the 'last word -> first word -> second word etc' to 'first word -> second word -> third word etc'. |
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04-14-2010, 07:48 AM | #6 |
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Calibre does not have the feature you want. When you ask Calibre to sort by author, it actually sorts by the field author_sort. It can't sort by author. You can see the author_sort field in the edit metadata screen. It's entirely under your control, but by default, it will put the last character string in first.
If you have an author named John Smith (v1), it will move (v1) to the front of the author_sort string. If that's not what you want, you need to edit the author_sort field when you add a book. The basic assumption is that you will give it the author's name, and if you don't do that, Calibre won't work well when creating the author_sort field. |
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Hopefully the option will get added to Calibre in the future. It seems like it'd be simple, software-wise. Last edited by osirisomeomi; 04-14-2010 at 03:59 PM. |
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