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Originally Posted by chaley
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.
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This makes sense. I think I'll go with option number 2 (though I already know Python and option number 5 is not completely unreasonable
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Would I have to change all the authors manually or could I automate it somehow (I have roughly 250 different authors)?
Once again, thanks for your continued assistance. It's much appreciated.
