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Originally Posted by chaley
Your system is certainly confusing calibre. It won't know you have multiple authors, and it won't know how to process them.
I see you have a Sony. The calibre Sony driver can be told to use author_sort instead of author when writing the Sony DB. This is useful if you use 'first last' order, because the authors will be in 'last, first' order on your Sony.
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I have had very little trouble with Calibre, and much more trouble with the Sony reader. When I bought the thing I used Calibre to make some test ePub ebooks with every combination of 4 names that I could think of. For example {Linda Evans ; David Weber} {Evans, Linda ; Weber, David} {Evans ; Weber, David} etc. etc. etc.
Calibre had no trouble with any alternative. All alternatives with 3 or 4 names seemed to screw up the author sort IN THE SONY READER once I got the books transferred over.
Finally, I came to the conclusion that the best way to deal with the limitations of the Sony Reader was to use only 2 names, i.e. {LN1 ; LN2}. Again, calibre seems to have no trouble with this system, and more importantly the Sony Reader can grasp it.
This, however, is off the topic off my initial question.
Can anyone give me any advice on how to back up my calibre library onto CD and/or DVD disks, when the CD/DVD system won't tolerate semicolons in file names?
I suppose one solution might be to change my file naming system to something that doesn't use semicolons, but (a) I quite like my current naming system, (b) its another pile of work, and (c) having already tried every option I could think of, I would need someone to explain exactly what should go in the author and author_sort metadata fields that can be correctly handled by the Sony Reader, after I have loaded my books and disconnected the reader from the computer.
Gary