03-28-2010, 06:57 AM | #1 |
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Author Sort - change automatically?
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as has been discussed here the Sony ereaders don't seem to honour the author sort field. In calibre I have added authors with their first name first, eg. author: Isaac Asimov author_sort: Asimov, Isaac Is there a way to automatically change author to be the same than author sort? E.g. change Isaac Asimov to Asimov, Isaac? I have quite a few books in my library and don't want to do it manually. Thank you, Robert |
03-28-2010, 07:40 AM | #2 |
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I'm not sure about doing the whole shebang automatically, but you can bulk edit books if you want.
If your library is huge, just type in Asimov in the search bar. Then select all the books you want to change the author. Right click and select "edit meta information" and then "edit meta information in bulk". under "Author(s)" type in what you want and Calibre will change the author for all those books. |
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The 'yes' part is that once you have corrected author to be ln,fn, you need to tell Calibre how to compute the author_sort so that it doesn't end up backwards. First, set the 'tweak' that tells calibre how to copy author to author_sort. See this post for some instructions. |
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You can copy the author_sort field to author field easily using calibre's bulk edit.
1. Select books you want to change, click "edit metadata in bulk" 2. on the "search and replace" tab, select "regular expression" from the "search mode" dropdown 3. fill in: search field = author_sort search for = (.+) replace with = \1 destination field = author 4. hit ok |
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That's true, but you can't do that for a selected group of ebooks, can you? I think you can only 'manage authors' for your entire library.
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03-21-2012, 06:59 AM | #11 |
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Use 'copy' for the tweak value, and if needed, recompute the author_sort by selecting the books you want to change and do a Bulk Edit Metadata -> 'Automatically set author sort'
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03-23-2012, 03:36 AM | #12 |
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I have done this multiple times!!!!! It does nothing I have reloaded all my books (5300+) twice. I started to edit metadata one by one....then tried the bulk edit after the tweak again, and it puts everything back the way it was I'm soooo frustrated
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Author must be correct for Automatic (calculate) Set to work as you have configured. GIGO still applies here |
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03-24-2012, 02:10 AM | #15 |
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Ok, well I had my 'code guy' AKA Hubby, look to she what I was doing wrong.... I had used 'copy author to author_sort without modification' instead of 'copy'
Thanks for your help guys!! |
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