[anthony.burton4]

Hi,

I'm having a lot of problems getting Author sorting to work - everything I try, the results seem to be contrary to expectations.

I have 2 books by J A Jance. I have been trying to set the Author to "Jance, J A", and that's how I want it sorted too, so I want the same value in the Author Sort field.

I have tried the tweak to "Copy" the author field into the AUthor sort field, but this doesn't seem to work as I expected, so I have stuck with manually entering the value each time - this works and I end up with the same value in both fields which I what I want, but for some reason, the Author sorting still ignores this. So although the value in the author sort field is also "Jance, J A", it appears at the top of my list as though it was still the "previously" auto-generated Author sort value of A, Jance, J.

I double check this by examining the meta data of each of the two books, and the AuthorSort field IS correctly set, so is there a 3rd "hidden" field somewhere containing the real data that Author sort uses??

Can I add that the checkbox to "Automatically set Author sort field" appears to do the opposite of what it suggest, I would assume that not checking this would mean that the author sort value is whatever I type, when in fact I have to check the box in order to manually enter data and have it retained.

I am using the latest version of calibre.

Thanks,

Tony