[Merischino]

Without including the entire list, here is a snippet of my list. Please note that in all cases but one (Anne McCaffrey), the Author and the Author Sort fields are populated with the exact same data (example I have copied and pasted "Batho, Michele" into both the "Author" and the "Author Sort" fields for Michele Batho.) Only in the case of Anne McCaffrey are some records populated with "Anne McCaffrey" as the author and "McCaffrey, Anne" as the author-sort.) This discrepancy is because I am troubleshooting. For brevity I am skipping over a lot of records to show the pattern of discrepancies. This by no means includes all discrepancies.

1. Aesop
2. Norton, Andre
3. McCaffrey, Anne
28. Asimov, Isaac
30 Austen, Jane
33 Michele Batho
35 Brown, Dan
58 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
59 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
60 Adams, Douglas
72 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
75 Eddings, David
123 McCaffrey, Anne
131 Anne McCaffrey
147 McCaffrey, Anne
252 Stableford, Brian

Now, after having moved my calibre library, things are starting to make a *little* bit more sense in this list than they have in the past. An argument could be made that sorting is now happening on the first name. Sometimes. then, sometimes, for no apparent reason, it switches to sortying by last name. (Doyle? Cervantes?) or by middle name maybe (the "de" in Miguel de Cervantees Saavedra maybe?)

If I have "Adams, Douglas" entered for both Author and Author Sort fields, then shouldn't "Adams, Doglas" be sorting on the A of Adams, and not on the D of Douglas? If It is sorting on the D of Douglas, shouldn't it follow that it would sort also on the o after that D and place itself AFTER the Da in Eddings, David?

If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is entered into both the Author and the Author Sort fields in the GUI metadata as "Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan" the does it not follow that it should be sorting on the D in Doyle, not the S of Sir or the A of Arthur or the C of Conan, and that it should sort all Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan entries the same way and in the same place in the list? Why are the two "Doyle" entries not together?

If Michele Batho's metadata is entered into Calbre as Batho, Michele in all cases, why does she show up in this list as "Michele Batho"?

If Calibre is sorting on first initial of first name, why is Brian Stableford all the way down at #352?

If there are only two ways in which Anne McCaffrey is entered into Metadata in Calbire (namely, 1 as "Anne McCaffrey" as author and as "McCaffrey, Anne" as author-sort and 2 as "McCaffrey, Anne" as author and as "McCaffrey, Anne" as author-sort, with both scenarios establishing author sort in the same way, why are there more than 4 different ways that she is sorting? Based on the metadata entries, she should sort only one way, by the last name. In practice, she sorts by last name, by first name, and by who knows what order when entries appear somewhere else altogether in the list