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Originally Posted by Starson17
If I understand her, I think her concern is that her authors are currently firstname lastname, and she wants a fast way to make them lastname, firstname. Then she can work on author sorts (of which there are two - one for the books and one for the authors).
The search and replace function comes to mind for her main problem.
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Yeah I "assumed" like you Starson that she is in the position of having a database of authors that are FN LN that she now wants to become LN, FN. That Recompute button is going to do nothing to help her with that data entry problem?
In find/replace, is it possible to take the value from the author_sort field and put it into the author field? Presumably her existing author_sort is probably pretty correct already. If she could do that it would save a lot of typing.
This is one of those areas of Calibre that you kind of wish in hindsight you had been prompted to decide on what you wanted when you first create a library, as it is a complicated pain to sort out after you have imported a load of books. We haven't even mentioned the whole book sorts vs author sorts issue which was what got me confused when I first tried this until I got help here in the forums...