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Originally Posted by Adoby
Are your books sorted on some other field, if not on author?
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when I click on the colum headed "author" I get a mishmash of results, where it looks like this
McCaffrey, Anne
Austen, Jane
Melville, Herman
Heinlein, Robert A
McCaffrey, Anne
Melville, Herman
Huxley, Theodore
Heinlein, Robert A
such that although I have asked it to sort alphabetically by Author, it is neither sorting alphabetically by last name, nor is it sorting alphabetically by first name. It is not grouping authors of the same name together in a mistaken place (e.g., all McCaffreys are not together. All Heinleins are not together. All Melville's are not together).
In short: there is no rhyme or reason to where items appear in the list.
When I click to sort on Series, It does, happily, sort on series and in numerical order. So that
Foundation 1
Foundation 2
Foundation 3
Occurs or conversely
Foundation 3
Foundation 2
Foundation 1
So, Calibre is CAPABLE of sorting on a field. There simply is nothing clearly understandable to me, a lay person, why if AuthorName filed is populated with "Robert A Heinlein" and (for simplicity's sake) AuthorSort field is populated with "Robert A Heinlein" it would not both group all "Robert A Heinlein"s together, and place them within a larger list in an "R" location within that list.
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Originally Posted by Adoby
You can easily change what to sort on by just clicking on the field heading you wish to sort on. Click again to reverse sort.
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That's what should happen when I click on the field heading. That is not what happens, though, which is why I came here to post my issue.
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Originally Posted by Adoby
If you do this on "Author(s)", does the order of the books change?
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Yes.. Calibre clearly is doing something. What exactly it's doing, completely a mystery to me.
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Originally Posted by Adoby
I usually sort on last name. So if the author is Jane Austen, I sort using "Austen, Jane".
One quick way to ensure that all entries for the same author are sorted identically is to mark them all and then right click on them and select "Edit Metadata in Bulk". Set the author name and select Automatically select author sort. (This will make the books sort on the last name of the author.) Don't change anything else and click OK. After that all the books for that author should appear together, if you sort on author. You may have to refresh by cklicking on the Author(s) heading.
This is what I (and I assume most others here) always do to books I add to my library. It works perfectly.
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I have done this to all my books. It does not work for me. That's why I came here.
I can edit my metadata individually. I can edit it in bulk. I always perform my edits from within the GUI. I never edit it in the file structure itself. I can edit the author name manually. I can choose to edit the metadata by having the downloaded information overwrite what is existing within the database. No matter how I do it, my Calibre does not sort alphabetically by author based on the actual metadata reflected in those fields as viewed from within Calibre's GUI.
I cannot get Calibre to sort alphabeitcally by author.
Help.