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Old 07-28-2010, 04:55 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
I've looked at your db, and there are lots of entries where this is not what I see.



I see "Batho, Michele" in author_sort and "Michele Batho" in author. They sort correctly under "B"



I see the opposite - "Anne McCaffrey" as the author_sort and "McCaffrey, Anne" as the author.


Are you selecting a record, pressing "E" to edit the metadata (or right clicking and choosing "Edit metadata" to see the author_sort contents?



The contents of author_sort is: "de, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel" so it sorts under "d"



But, you don't. You have "Douglas, Adams," in author_sort.



It would, but you have "Eddings, David" in author_sort, so it's sorting on "E"




You don't have the same thing in author_sort for both. You have one record where "Conan" is first in author_sort and another where "Doyle" is first. Taht's wwhy tehy aren't together.

I could go on, but it's all sorting correctly - you just have a mess in your author_sort.

It is interesting that what you see in the "metadata.db" file is corresponding with how things sort, however what I see in the calibre GUI does not in any way correspond to what you are seeing in the metadata.db file.
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