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Originally Posted by Starson17
I don't want to belabor the point, but the records display what is in "author" and sort by what is in "author_sort" To help you fix it, I have to make sure you are looking at the content of the two fields. For some reason, you either are not seeing what I see, or you aren't looking at the right location.
To further explain, here is how Calibre works: When you add a book, you tell Calibre the author name. Calibre then tries to figure out the author_sort name. It's not very smart about this and just sticks the last part of the name at the front, separated by a comma. From then on, it will not change the author_sort. If it isn't sorted as you want, you need to change author_sort. If the author name isn't showing up correctly, you need to change that. Changing one does not change the other.
If you prefer to use Lastname, Firstname, there's a tweak that will prevent this name reversal or control it when Calibre enters the author_sort field. If you don't use the Tweak, and tell Calibre the name is "Brown, Dan," Calibre will just enter "Dan, Brown" into the author_sort field and sort on D.
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I guess I'd like to ask what this tweak is. Or whether using it, or not using it, would affect the behavior of the sorting for those of us (like me!) who want the sorting and the appearance of the name in that sorted list to be the same.
eg Author: McCaffrey, Anne
Author-sort: McCaffrey, Anne
Appearance in sorted list looks like: McCaffrey, Anne
Not sure whether this is even relevant given that my metadata.db file does not reflect my changes to my metadata, but assuming we can fix that and it does ultimately reflect my changes, would my entering the exactly same data into both of those two fields cause a conflict?
Up til now, the above scenario is what I have been trying to drive towards. So, forgetting for a moment what shows up in my metadata.db, if all data in the "author-sort" field is user-entered a specific way, will Calibre perform based on what's actually user-entered into that field, or will it supercede the actual entry as if there was nothing entered in there at all? (e.g, Does calibre assume in all cases that what it would have auto-entered is what's actually in there?)
Not trying to come up with a conspiracy theory. Just trying to figure out if, after completely deleting and clean-installing everything, and starting over from scratch, whether or not spending time entering data into the "author sort" field is a worthwhile effort.