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Originally Posted by kacir
Use a custom column, built from other columns.
Call it mytitle, select "column built from other columns" and give it template {title}.
Now sort the books according to this column.
The titles are sorted strictly alphabetically.
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Uhhhh... Why do that? Why not set the tweak and let calibre do it? That way, the title_sort value has what you want in it. I suppose that if you have a lot of books and don't want to do the 'forced update' bit described below, then this approach works.
@pghaworth: changing the tweak doesn't change the values in the database. You need to force calibre to do an update to the metadata of every book. There are three general ways to do that.
1) Select all the books, then right-click and select 'Edit metadata individually'. As each box opens, hit return without changing anything. The title sort value will be updated. If you have a lot of books, you will get tired of hitting return.
2) Double-click in a title and hit return. Updates the title to what it was before, but applying the tweak. Again, if you have a lot of books, this method will be annoying.
3) If your author_sort values are all computed from the author values, then you can force the recomputation in one step by selecting all your books, hitting 'E' to get to bulk metadata edit, checking the 'Automatically set author sort' box, and pressing OK. Calibre will change the author sort to what it already is, recomputing the title sort in the process. This is what I would do.