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Originally Posted by Jessehk
That being said, what should I do in the interim?
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I see four reasonable possibilities, and one unreasonable one.
The four reasonable ones are:
1) Uncheck the 'use author sort' box. Books sent to the kindle will then have authors in correct kindle format (author;author), but (I think) sorted by first name(?).
2) Enter authors in calibre as 'LN, FN' instead of 'FN LN'. This, along with #1 above, should give you everything you want, assuming I understand both the problem and the kindle's behavior. If you choose this method, look at the tweaks and choose the appropriate method for computing author_sort. FWIW: I do this. I want my authors sorted by last name, and I want that last name to be trivially locatable in the author column.
3) Manually change the author_sort values for the books. My understanding from this thread is that if the box contains Blogs, Joe;Texts, Susie, then the kindle will do good things.
4) Do nothing, and live with books with multiple authors being strange.
The unreasonable one is:
5) Learn to program in python and make calibre behave the way you want it to.