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Old 10-03-2010, 05:42 AM   #260
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Hi folks,
Well, up till now the author_sort field was set on the BOOK (and not AUTHOR) table, which could lead to a single author being spelled differently (and thus referenced more than once). This has changed recently, IIRC, I'll have to check.
Also, this field usually contained garbage for most users, who leaved it as is without even checking what Calibre did with it (and if you imported an ePub file, it would take the content of the ePub metadata for hard information... dunno if this changed).
So yes, it's bad and no, I will not change it lightly; but yes, I'll try and remember to have a look into the new Calibre features regarding this issue.
Dave, can you create a bug report so I don't forget ? Thanks !

All best,
David.
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