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Originally Posted by chaley
For the same reason that the title sort field isn't displayed -- it is redundant. Both fields control display order, and have no additional information.
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I don't wish to be picky, but this does not seem to be correct at all (in my humble opinion). The Author Title can be totally different to Author Sort fields. This happens quite a bit, and can be hard to find.
For example, I could have an author "Fred Bloggs". The Author Sort field could be "Mary Smith". Don't think this cannot happen - it happens all to frequently! Often the Author Sort field can be downloaded metatags - even worse to find! Unless you are watching carefully, this book 'disappears'. If you are importing many books at one time, you often don't notice that one book has gone. In my case, with about 2,000 books on the device, I probably will not find it again - why would I look for a book by 'Mary Smith", I will be looking for "Bloggs, Fred", and not find it.
In practice, what happens is I copy a whole bunch of books to the device - and eventually I notice some weird folders - or I notice that a book in a series is missing. It always comes down to the Author Sort field being incorrect.
This is the actual problem - what is displayed in the Author column has no bearing on what Calibre does with the book, nor indeed how it sorts it. That is the issue - there is no link between what you are looking at, and the data the program is using, except in theory.
What I really would like to see is BOTH columns displayed. Then I could simply scroll down and see which fields do not match.
Just my 2 cents worth
